{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/rapid-stellar-and-binary-population-synthesis","title":"Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS","arxiv_id":"2109.10352","date":"2021-09-21","proceeding":null,"authors":["Team COMPAS",":","Jeff Riley","Poojan Agrawal","Jim W. Barrett","Kristan N. K. Boyett","Floor S. Broekgaarden","Debatri Chattopadhyay","Sebastian M. Gaebel","Fabian Gittins","Ryosuke Hirai","George Howitt","Stephen Justham","Lokesh Khandelwal","Floris Kummer","Mike Y. M. Lau","Ilya Mandel","Selma E. de Mink","Coenraad Neijssel","Tim Riley","Lieke van Son","Simon Stevenson","Alejandro Vigna-Gomez","Serena Vinciguerra","Tom Wagg","Reinhold Willcox"],"abstract":"Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parametrized assumptions in order to allow comparisons against observational data sets, such as those coming from gravitational-wave observations of merging compact remnants. It includes a number of tools for population processing in addition to the core binary evolution components. COMPAS is publicly available via the github repository https://github.com/TeamCOMPAS/COMPAS/, and is designed to allow for flexible modifications as evolutionary models improve. This paper describes the methodology and implementation of COMPAS. It is a living document which will be updated as new features are added to COMPAS; the current document describes COMPAS v02.21.00.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10352v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.10352v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"rapid-stellar-and-binary-population-synthesis","repo_url":"https://github.com/TeamCOMPAS/COMPAS","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}