Floor Broekgaarden
she/herUniversity of California San Diego
Astrophysicist at UC San Diego studying massive stars & compact binaries through gravitational waves.
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Floor Broekgaarden is an astrophysicist at UC San Diego studying the evolution of massive stars and compact binaries through gravitational-wave observations. Her work combines astrophysics, simulations, AI, and statistics to reconstruct the origins of black holes and neutron stars across cosmic history.
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Affiliations
- Principal Investigator at Gravitational Wave Paleontology Lab
Recent publications
- The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2026 · 357 citations
- Not Just Winds: Why Models Find That Binary Black Hole Formation Is Metallicity-dependent, while Binary Neutron Star Formation Is Not
The Astrophysical Journal · 2025 · 34 citations
- The Binary Black Hole Merger Rate Deviates from the Cosmic Star Formation Rate: A Tug of War between Metallicity and Delay Times
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 14 citations
- Investigating the Cosmological Rate of Compact Object Mergers from Isolated Massive Binary Stars
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 15 citations
- Visualizing the Number of Existing and Future Gravitational-wave Detections from Merging Double Compact Objects
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 15 citations
- Ten Ways to Improve Support Resources for Workplace Incivility in AstronomyPreprint
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society · 2023 · 0 citations
- Rates of compact object coalescences
Living Reviews in Relativity · 2022 · 287 citations
- Which black hole formed first? Mass-ratio reversal in massive binary stars from gravitational-wave data
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2022 · 48 citations
- Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations - II. Double compact object rates and properties
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2022 · 165 citations
- Signatures of Mass Ratio Reversal in Gravitational Waves from Merging Binary Black Holes
The Astrophysical Journal · 2022 · 55 citations
- Gravitational Wave Sources in Our Galactic Backyard: Predictions for BHBH, BHNS, and NSNS Binaries Detectable with LISA
The Astrophysical Journal · 2022 · 73 citations
- Modelling the formation of the first two neutron star-black hole mergers, GW200105 and GW200115: metallicity, chirp masses, and merger remnant spins
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2022 · 28 citations
- The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter
The Astrophysical Journal · 2022 · 173 citations
- Evidence for X-Ray Emission in Excess to the Jet-afterglow Decay 3.5 yr after the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW 170817: A New Emission Component
The Astrophysical Journal · 2022 · 118 citations
- How to support Early Career Astronomers: an ECA perspectivePreprint
The Present and Future of Astronomy · 2022 · 0 citations
- Evidence from Disrupted Halo Dwarfs that r-process Enrichment via Neutron Star Mergers is Delayed by ≳500 Myr
The Astrophysical Journal · 2022 · 73 citations
- Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2022 · 182 citations
- Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations I: black hole-neutron star mergers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2021 · 162 citations
- Formation of the First Two Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers (GW200115 and GW200105) from Isolated Binary Evolution
The Astrophysical Journal · 2021 · 50 citations
- Modelling neutron star-black hole binaries: future pulsar surveys and gravitational wave detectors
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2021 · 79 citations
- Polluting the Pair-instability Mass Gap for Binary Black Holes through Super-Eddington Accretion in Isolated Binaries
The Astrophysical Journal · 2020 · 119 citations
- The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2019 · 302 citations
- STROOPWAFEL: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources★
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2019 · 47 citations
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