Community researchGravitational Wave Paleontology Lab

Reconstruct the lives of individual cosmic fossils

Every gravitational-wave event tells a story.

As a Brave Bone Biographer, you will use our tools to investigate the detailed evolutionary history of individual BBH, BHNS, or BNS systems.

You will explore questions such as:

- Did the stars exchange mass?

- Did they survive a common-envelope phase?

- What masses were the stars born with?

- What metallicity environment did they form in?

- How did their orbital separation evolve?

- How long did they take to merge?

You will simulate and analyze individual compact-object binaries and reconstruct their evolutionary pathways from birth to collision.

Led by

Floor Broekgaarden
Floor BroekgaardenPrincipal Investigator · University of California San Diego

Skills & topics

Binary evolutionMass transferData analysis

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Join Gravitational Wave Paleontology Lab’s community research group and contribute to real scientific work alongside the researchers who care most about answering these questions.