Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
As an undergraduate student, I worked on a project aiming to constrain the natal kicks on black holes in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) by modeling the evolutionary history of observed LMXBs. I use a combination of population synthesis, a detailed stellar structure and evolution code, and analytic treatments to reconstruct the history of the binaries. This work was completed in Prof. Vicky Kalogera's group.
After I graduated, the study was completed by Chase Kimball, a Northwestern PhD candidate. The paper can be accessed here https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...952L..34K/abstract