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Please email your queries to compas-user@googlegroups.com. You are also welcome to join the [COMPAS User Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!members/compas-user) to engage in discussions with COMPAS users and developers.
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## Acknowledgements
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If you use this code or parts of this code for results presented in a scientific publication, we would greatly appreciate if you send us your paper reference and make your input settings and output data publicly available by uploading it to the [COMPAS Zenodo community](https://zenodo.org/communities/compas/). Please also kindly include citations to our COMPAS methods paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210910352T/abstract. As the public COMPAS code is a product of work by the entire COMPAS collaboration over many years, we kindly request that, in recognition of this team effort, the paper is cited as “Team COMPAS: J. Riley et al.”. An example bibtex code is:
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@ARTICLE{2022ApJS..258...34R,
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author = {{Riley}, Jeff and {Agrawal}, Poojan and {Barrett}, Jim W. and {Boyett}, Kristan N.~K. and {Broekgaarden}, Floor S. and {Chattopadhyay}, Debatri and {Gaebel}, Sebastian M. and {Gittins}, Fabian and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Howitt}, George and {Justham}, Stephen and {Khandelwal}, Lokesh and {Kummer}, Floris and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Mandel}, Ilya and {de Mink}, Selma E. and {Neijssel}, Coenraad and {Riley}, Tim and {van Son}, Lieke and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vigna-G{\'o}mez}, Alejandro and {Vinciguerra}, Serena and {Wagg}, Tom and {Willcox}, Reinhold and {Team Compas}},
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If you use this code or parts of this code for results presented in a scientific publication, we would greatly appreciate if you send us your paper reference and make your input settings and output data
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publicly available by uploading it to the [COMPAS Zenodo community](https://zenodo.org/communities/compas/). Please also kindly include citations to our COMPAS methods papers
As the public COMPAS code is a product of work by the entire COMPAS collaboration over many years, we kindly request that, in recognition of
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this team effort, the papers are cited as “Team COMPAS: J. Riley et al. (2021)” and "Team COMPAS: I. Mandel et al. (2025). Example bibtex codes are:
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@ARTICLE{compas2021,
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author = {{Team COMPAS: Riley}, Jeff and {Agrawal}, Poojan and {Barrett}, Jim W. and {Boyett}, Kristan N.~K. and {Broekgaarden}, Floor S. and {Chattopadhyay}, Debatri and {Gaebel}, Sebastian M. and {Gittins}, Fabian and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Howitt}, George and {Justham}, Stephen and {Khandelwal}, Lokesh and {Kummer}, Floris and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Mandel}, Ilya and {de Mink}, Selma E. and {Neijssel}, Coenraad and {Riley}, Tim and {van Son}, Lieke and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vigna-G{\'o}mez}, Alejandro and {Vinciguerra}, Serena and {Wagg}, Tom and {Willcox}, Reinhold},
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title = "{Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS}",
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journal = {\apjs},
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keywords = {1622, 154, 1108, 162, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
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}
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@ARTICLE{compas2025,
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author = {{Team COMPAS: Mandel}, Ilya and {Riley}, Jeff and {Boesky}, Adam and {Brcek}, Adam and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Kapil}, Veome and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Merritt}, JD and {Rodr{\'\i}guez-Segovia}, Nicol{\'a}s and {Romero-Shaw}, Isobel and {Song}, Yuzhe and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vajpeyi}, Avi and {van Son}, L.~A.~C. and {Vigna-G{\'o}mez}, Alejandro and {Willcox}, Reinhold},
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title = "{Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS: Methods Paper II}",
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keywords = {Binary stars, Stellar populations, Stellar evolution, Stellar evolutionary models, Stellar remnants, 154, 1622, 1599, 2046, 1627, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
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}
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Note that the preferred acknowledgement relies on \noopsort and cites the paper as TEAM COMPAS; Riley et al.; to make it work, you'll have to include the following line at the start of your bibtex file:
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@PREAMBLE{ {\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}} }
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##Note that the preferred acknowledgement relies on \noopsort and cites the paper as TEAM COMPAS; Riley et al.; to make it work, you'll have to include the following line at the start of your bibtex file:
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##@PREAMBLE{ {\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}} }
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author = {{\noopsort{Team COMPAS}}{Team COMPAS: Riley, J.} and {Agrawal}, Poojan and {Barrett}, Jim W. and {Boyett}, Kristan N.~K. and {Broekgaarden}, Floor S. and {Chattopadhyay}, Debatri and {Gaebel}, Sebastian M. and {Gittins}, Fabian and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Howitt}, George and {Justham}, Stephen and {Khandelwal}, Lokesh and {Kummer}, Floris and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Mandel}, Ilya and {de Mink}, Selma E. and {Neijssel}, Coenraad and {Riley}, Tim and {van Son}, Lieke and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vigna-Gomez}, Alejandro and {Vinciguerra}, Serena and {Wagg}, Tom and {Willcox}, Reinhold}
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##author = {{\noopsort{Team COMPAS}}{Team COMPAS: Riley, J.} and {Agrawal}, Poojan and {Barrett}, Jim W. and {Boyett}, Kristan N.~K. and {Broekgaarden}, Floor S. and {Chattopadhyay}, Debatri and {Gaebel}, Sebastian M. and {Gittins}, Fabian and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Howitt}, George and {Justham}, Stephen and {Khandelwal}, Lokesh and {Kummer}, Floris and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Mandel}, Ilya and {de Mink}, Selma E. and {Neijssel}, Coenraad and {Riley}, Tim and {van Son}, Lieke and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vigna-Gomez}, Alejandro and {Vinciguerra}, Serena and {Wagg}, Tom and {Willcox}, Reinhold}
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@ARTICLE{2022ApJS..258...34R,
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title = "{Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS}",
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keywords = {1622, 154, 1108, 162, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
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author = {{Team COMPAS: Riley}, Jeff and {Agrawal}, Poojan and {Barrett}, Jim W. and {Boyett}, Kristan N.~K. and {Broekgaarden}, Floor S. and {Chattopadhyay}, Debatri and {Gaebel}, Sebastian M. and {Gittins}, Fabian and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Howitt}, George and {Justham}, Stephen and {Khandelwal}, Lokesh and {Kummer}, Floris and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Mandel}, Ilya and {de Mink}, Selma E. and {Neijssel}, Coenraad and {Riley}, Tim and {van Son}, Lieke and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vigna-G{\'o}mez}, Alejandro and {Vinciguerra}, Serena and {Wagg}, Tom and {Willcox}, Reinhold},
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title = "{Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS}",
author = {{Team COMPAS: Mandel}, Ilya and {Riley}, Jeff and {Boesky}, Adam and {Brcek}, Adam and {Hirai}, Ryosuke and {Kapil}, Veome and {Lau}, Mike Y.~M. and {Merritt}, JD and {Rodr{\'\i}guez-Segovia}, Nicol{\'a}s and {Romero-Shaw}, Isobel and {Song}, Yuzhe and {Stevenson}, Simon and {Vajpeyi}, Avi and {van Son}, L.~A.~C. and {Vigna-G{\'o}mez}, Alejandro and {Willcox}, Reinhold},
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title = "{Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II}",
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title = "{Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS: Methods Paper II}",
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**--main-sequence-core-mass-prescription** |br|
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Main sequence core mass prescription. |br|
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Options: {ZERO, MANDEL, BRCEK} |br|
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``ZERO`` : No core mass treatment, set to zero |br|
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Options: {HURLEY, MANDEL, BRCEK} |br|
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``HURLEY`` : Treatment from Hurley et al. (2000), in which MS stars do not have a distinct core and core evolution is not tracked |br|
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``MANDEL`` : The core following case A mass transfer is set equal to the expected core mass of a newly formed HG star with mass equal to that of the donor, scaled by the fraction of the donor's MS lifetime at mass transfer |br|
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``BRCEK`` : Core mass according to Shikauchi et al. (2024) with added rejuvenation of MS accretors and updated stellar tracks |br|
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Following is a brief list of important updates to the COMPAS code. A complete record of changes can be found in the file ``changelog.h``.
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**03.26.02 October 27, 2025**
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* Added option --USSN-kicks-override-mandel-muller ; if set to true, use user-defined USSN kicks (as a fixed value) in lieu of the Mandel & Muller kick prescription for USSNe
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**03.26.00 September 2, 2025**
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