When citing binary_c, please use:

• Izzard and Jermyn (2023)
• Izzard, Preece, Jofre, Halabi, Masseron and Tout (2018)
• Izzard, Glebbeek, Stancliffe and Pols (2009)
• Izzard, Dray, Karakas, Lugaro and Tout (2006)
• Izzard, Tout, Karakas and Pols (2004)

2026

The Best Guess: Testing New and Old Formalisms for the Common Envelope against Observations
Riley Thai, Amanda I. Karakas, Zara Osborn, Robert G. Izzard, Ryosuke Hirai, Alex J. Kemp, Simon W. Campbell
ADS

2025

Using binary population synthesis to calculate the yields of low- and intermediate-mass binary populations at low metallicity
Zara Osborn, Amanda Karakas, Devika Kamath, Robert Izzard, Alex Kemp, Chiaki Kobayashi
ADS 2 citations

Determination of the mass distribution of the first stars from the 21-cm signal
T. Gessey-Jones, N.S. Sartorio, H.T.J. Bevins, A. Fialkov, W.J. Handley, E. de Lera Acedo, G.M. Mirouh, R.G. Izzard, R. Barkana
ADS 17 citations

A stellar evolutionary grid for binary population synthesis: from the main sequence to helium ignition
Natalie R. Rees, Robert G. Izzard, David D. Hendriks
ADS 1 citations

Using binary population synthesis to examine the impact of binary evolution on the C, N, O, and S-process yields of solar-metallicity low- and intermediate-mass stars
Zara Osborn, Amanda Karakas, Alex Kemp, Robert Izzard, Devika Kamath, Maria Lugaro
ADS 10 citations

2024

Anomalously low-mass core-He-burning star in NGC 6819 as a post-common-envelope phase product
Massimiliano Matteuzzi, David Hendriks, Robert G. Izzard, Andrea Miglio, Karsten Brogaard, Josefina Montalbán, Marco Tailo, Alessandro Mazzi
ADS 9 citations

Nova contributions to the chemical evolution of the Milky Way
Alex J. Kemp, Amanda I. Karakas, Andrew R. Casey, Benoit Côté, Robert G. Izzard, Zara Osborn
ADS 11 citations

The impact of binary stars on the dust and metal evolution of galaxies
Robert M. Yates, David Hendriks, Aswin P. Vijayan, Robert G. Izzard, Peter A. Thomas, Payel Das
ADS 40 citations

Population synthesis of Be X-ray binaries: metallicity dependence of total X-ray outputs
Boyuan Liu, Nina S. Sartorio, Robert G. Izzard, Anastasia Fialkov
ADS 20 citations

2023

Aluminium-26 production in low- and intermediate-mass binary systems
Zara Osborn, Amanda I. Karakas, Alex J. Kemp, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 3 citations

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic transients
D.D. Hendriks, L.A.C. van Son, M. Renzo, R.G. Izzard, R. Farmer
ADS 68 citations

Confirmation of a new resonance in ²⁶Si and contribution of classical novae to the galactic abundance of ²⁶Al
L. Canete, D.T. Doherty, G. Lotay, D. Seweryniak, C.M. Campbell, M.P. Carpenter, W.N. Catford, K.A. Chipps, J. Henderson, R.G. Izzard, R.V.F. Janssens, H. Jayatissa, J. José, A.R.L. Kennington, F.G. Kondev, A. Korichi, T. Lauritsen, C. Müller-Gatermann, C. Paxman, Zs. Podolyák, B.J. Reed, P.H. Regan, W. Reviol, M. Siciliano, G.L. Wilson, R. Yates, S. Zhu
ADS 6 citations

libcdict: fast dictionaries in C
Robert Izzard, David Hendriks, Daniel Nemergut
ADS

binary_c-python: Stellar population synthesis tool and interface to binary_c
David D. Hendriks, Robert G. Izzard
ADS

Mass-stream trajectories with non-synchronously rotating donors
D.D. Hendriks, R.G. Izzard
ADS 12 citations

Detailed equilibrium and dynamical tides: impact on circularization and synchronization in open clusters
Giovanni M. Mirouh, David D. Hendriks, Sophie Dykes, Maxwell Moe, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 19 citations

binary_c-python: A Python-based stellar population synthesis tool and interface to binary_c
D. Hendriks, R. Izzard
ADS 16 citations

An optimal envelope ejection efficiency for merging neutron stars
Alexander M. Tanaka, Avishai Gilkis, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 3 citations

Circumbinary discs for stellar population models
Robert G. Izzard, Adam S. Jermyn
ADS 32 citations

Population III X-ray binaries and their impact on the early universe
Nina S. Sartorio, A. Fialkov, T. Hartwig, G.M. Mirouh, R.G. Izzard, M. Magg, R.S. Klessen, S.C.O. Glover, L. Chen, Y. Tarumi, D.D. Hendriks
ADS 29 citations

2022

Impact of the primordial stellar initial mass function on the 21-cm signal
T. Gessey-Jones, N.S. Sartorio, A. Fialkov, G.M. Mirouh, M. Magg, R.G. Izzard, E. de Lera Acedo, W.J. Handley, R. Barkana
ADS 65 citations

Viability of Novae as Sources of Galactic Lithium
Alex J. Kemp, Amanda I. Karakas, Andrew R. Casey, Benoit Côté, Robert G. Izzard, Zara Osborn
ADS 18 citations

The impact of metallicity on nova populations
Alex J. Kemp, Amanda I. Karakas, Andrew R. Casey, Chiaki Kobayashi, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 20 citations

2021

Population synthesis of accreting white dwarfs: rates and evolutionary pathways of H and He novae
Alex J. Kemp, Amanda I. Karakas, Andrew R. Casey, Robert G. Izzard, Ashley J. Ruiter, Poojan Agrawal, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Karel D. Temmink
ADS 20 citations

Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field
A. Miglio, C. Chiappini, J.T. Mackereth, G.R. Davies, K. Brogaard, L. Casagrande, W.J. Chaplin, L. Girardi, D. Kawata, S. Khan, R. Izzard, J. Montalbán, B. Mosser, F. Vincenzo, D. Bossini, A. Noels, T. Rodrigues, M. Valentini, I. Mandel
ADS 210 citations

2020

Estimating the outcomes of common envelope evolution in triple stellar systems
T.A.F. Comerford, R.G. Izzard
ADS 31 citations

Unresolved stellar companions with Gaia DR2 astrometry
Vasily Belokurov, Zephyr Penoyre, Semyeong Oh, Giuliano Iorio, Simon Hodgkin, N.Wyn Evans, Andrew Everall, Sergey E. Koposov, Christopher A. Tout, Robert Izzard, Cathie J. Clarke, Anthony G.A. Brown
ADS 408 citations

2019

Massive runaway and walkaway stars. A study of the kinematical imprints of the physical processes governing the evolution and explosion of their binary progenitors
M. Renzo, E. Zapartas, S.E. de Mink, Y. Götberg, S. Justham, R.J. Farmer, R.G. Izzard, S. Toonen, H. Sana
ADS 271 citations

The interaction of core-collapse supernova ejecta with a stellar companion
Zheng-Wei Liu, T.M. Tauris, F.K. Röpke, T.J. Moriya, M. Kruckow, R.J. Stancliffe, R.G. Izzard
ADS 6 citations

2018

Understanding the orbital periods of CEMP-s stars
Carlo Abate, Onno R. Pols, Richard J. Stancliffe
ADS 29 citations

Binary stars in the Galactic thick disc
Robert G. Izzard, Holly Preece, Paula Jofre, Ghina M. Halabi, Thomas Masseron, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 99 citations

Post-AGB Discs from Common-Envelope Evolution
Robert G. Izzard, Adam S. Jermyn
ADS 13 citations

The blue straggler V106 in NGC 6791: a prototype progenitor of old single giants masquerading as young
K. Brogaard, S.M. Christiansen, F. Grundahl, A. Miglio, R.G. Izzard, T.M. Tauris, E.L. Sandquist, D.A. VandenBerg, J. Jessen-Hansen, T. Arentoft, H. Bruntt, S. Frandsen, J.A. Orosz, G.A. Feiden, R. Mathieu, A. Geller, M. Shetrone, N. Ryde, D. Stello, I. Platais, S. Meibom
ADS 27 citations

An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst
F.R.N. Schneider, H. Sana, C.J. Evans, J.M. Bestenlehner, N. Castro, L. Fossati, G. Gräfener, N. Langer, O.H. Ramírez-Agudelo, C. Sabín-Sanjulián, S. Simón-Díaz, F. Tramper, P.A. Crowther, A. de Koter, S.E. de Mink, P.L. Dufton, M. Garcia, M. Gieles, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. Herrero, R.G. Izzard, V. Kalari, D.J. Lennon, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. Markova, F. Najarro, Ph. Podsiadlowski, J. Puls, W.D. Taylor, J.Th. van Loon, J.S. Vink, C. Norman
ADS 246 citations

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXIX. Massive star formation in the local 30 Doradus starburst
F.R.N. Schneider, O.H. Ramírez-Agudelo, F. Tramper, J.M. Bestenlehner, N. Castro, H. Sana, C.J. Evans, C. Sabín-Sanjulián, S. Simón-Díaz, N. Langer, L. Fossati, G. Gräfener, P.A. Crowther, S.E. de Mink, A. de Koter, M. Gieles, A. Herrero, R.G. Izzard, V. Kalari, R.S. Klessen, D.J. Lennon, L. Mahy, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. Markova, J.Th. van Loon, J.S. Vink, N.R. Walborn
ADS 103 citations

Population synthesis of binary stars
Robert G. Izzard, Ghina M. Halabi
ADS 10 citations

Post-common envelope binary systems experiencing helium-shell-driven stable mass transfer
Ghina M. Halabi, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 5 citations

2017

Dawes Review 6: The Impact of Companions on Stellar Evolution
Orsola De Marco, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 202 citations

Hypervelocity runaways from the Large Magellanic Cloud
D. Boubert, D. Erkal, N.W. Evans, R.G. Izzard
ADS 67 citations

Delay-time distribution of core-collapse supernovae with late events resulting from binary interaction
E. Zapartas, S.E. de Mink, R.G. Izzard, S.-C. Yoon, C. Badenes, Y. Götberg, A. de Koter, C.J. Neijssel, M. Renzo, A. Schootemeijer, T.S. Shrotriya
ADS 197 citations

Core-collapse supernova progenitor constraints using the spatial distributions of massive stars in local galaxies
T. Kangas, L. Portinari, S. Mattila, M. Fraser, E. Kankare, R.G. Izzard, P. James, C. González-Fernández, J.R. Maund, A. Thompson
ADS 34 citations

2016

Cannibals in the thick disk: the young α-rich stars as evolved blue stragglers
P. Jofré, A. Jorissen, S. Van Eck, R.G. Izzard, T. Masseron, K. Hawkins, G. Gilmore, C. Paladini, A. Escorza, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, R. Manick
ADS 96 citations

2015

White dwarf masses in cataclysmic variables
T.P.G. Wijnen, M. Zorotovic, M.R. Schreiber
ADS 41 citations

Modelling the observed properties of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars using binary population synthesis
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.J. Stancliffe, R.G. Izzard, A.I. Karakas, T.C. Beers, Y.S. Lee
ADS 51 citations

The strange evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP1812
Hilding R. Neilson, Robert G. Izzard, Norbert Langer, Richard Ignace
ADS 20 citations

Modelling the observed properties of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars using binary population synthesis
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.J. Stancliffe, R.G. Izzard, A.I. Karakas, T.C. Beers, Y.S. Lee
ADS 51 citations

The interaction of core-collapse supernova ejecta with a companion star
Zheng-Wei Liu, T.M. Tauris, F.K. Röpke, T.J. Moriya, M. Kruckow, R.J. Stancliffe, R.G. Izzard
ADS 68 citations

Observable fractions of core-collapse supernova light curves brightened by binary companions
Takashi J. Moriya, Zheng-Wei Liu, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 15 citations

2014

The Incidence of Stellar Mergers and Mass Gainers among Massive Stars
S.E. de Mink, H. Sana, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard, F.R.N. Schneider
ADS 380 citations

Theoretical uncertainties of the Type Ia supernova rate
J.S.W. Claeys, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, J. Vink, F.W.M. Verbunt
ADS 283 citations

Ages of Young Star Clusters, Massive Blue Stragglers, and the Upper Mass Limit of Stars: Analyzing Age-dependent Stellar Mass Functions
F.R.N. Schneider, R.G. Izzard, S.E. de Mink, N. Langer, A. Stolte, A. de Koter, V.V. Gvaramadze, B. Hußmann, A. Liermann, H. Sana
ADS 155 citations

The Incidence of Stellar Mergers and Mass Gainers among Massive Stars
S.E. de Mink, H. Sana, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard, F.R.N. Schneider
ADS 380 citations

The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of Galactic massive stars
N. Castro, L. Fossati, N. Langer, S. Simón-Díaz, F.R.N. Schneider, R.G. Izzard
ADS 140 citations

2013

A nova re-accretion model for J-type carbon stars
S. Sengupta, R.G. Izzard, H.H.B. Lau
ADS 23 citations

AGB nucleosynthesis at low metallicity: What can we learn from Carbon- and s-elements-enhanced metal-poor stars
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, A.I. Karakas
ADS

Population synthesis of triple systems in the context of mergers of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs
A.S. Hamers, O.R. Pols, J.S.W. Claeys, G. Nelemans
ADS 110 citations

POPCORN: A comparison of binary population synthesis codes
J.S.W. Claeys, S. Toonen, N. Mennekens
ADS

Type Ia Supernovae and the Uncertainties in their Progenitor Evolution
J.S.W. Claeys, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard
ADS 1 citations

Wind Roche-lobe overflow: Application to carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, S.S. Mohamed, S.E. de Mink
ADS 166 citations

Eccentricity-pumping in post-AGB stars with circumbinary discs
T. Dermine, R.G. Izzard, A. Jorissen, H. Van Winckel
ADS 89 citations

The Rotation Rates of Massive Stars: The Role of Binary Interaction through Tides, Mass Transfer, and Mergers
S.E. de Mink, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard, H. Sana, A. de Koter
ADS 576 citations

Massive binary stars and self-enrichment of globular clusters
R.G. Izzard, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, N. Langer, H. Sana, A. de Koter
ADS 15 citations

Planetary nebulae after common-envelope phases initiated by low-mass red giants
Philip D. Hall, Christopher A. Tout, Robert G. Izzard, Denise Keller
ADS 49 citations

Massive binary stars and self-enrichment of globular clusters
R.G. Izzard, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, N. Langer, H. Sana, A. de Koter
ADS 15 citations

Stellar Evolution Models of Classical Cepheids Require Enhanced Mass Loss
Hilding Neilson, N. Langer, S.G. Engle, E.F. Guinan, R.G. Izzard
ADS

2012

Classical Cepheids Require Enhanced Mass Loss
Hilding R. Neilson, Norbert Langer, Scott G. Engle, Ed Guinan, Robert Izzard
ADS 44 citations

Challenges for Understanding the Evolution of Massive Stars: Rotation, Binarity, and Mergers
S.E. de Mink, I. Brott, M. Cantiello, R.G. Izzard, N. Langer, H. Sana
ADS 15 citations

Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars
H. Sana, S.E. de Mink, A. de Koter, N. Langer, C.J. Evans, M. Gieles, E. Gosset, R.G. Izzard, J.-B. Le Bouquin, F.R.N. Schneider
ADS 2162 citations

The occurrence of nitrogen-enhanced metal-poor stars: implications for the initial mass function in the early Galactic halo
O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, R.J. Stancliffe, E. Glebbeek
ADS 45 citations

2011

Fast rotating stars resulting from binary evolution will often appear to be single
Selma E. de Mink, Norbert Langer, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 15 citations

Binaries are the best single stars
S.E. de Mink, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard
ADS 34 citations

How did Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars form?
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, S. Mohamed, S.E. de Mink
ADS 1 citations

Formation and Evolution of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars
C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard
ADS

The search for progenitor models of type Ia supernovae
J.S.W. Claeys, O.R. Pols, J. Vink, R.G. Izzard
ADS 5 citations

Fast rotating stars resulting from binary evolution will often appear to be single
Selma E. de Mink, Norbert Langer, Robert G. Izzard
ADS 15 citations

2010

White-dwarf kicks and implications for barium stars
R.G. Izzard, T. Dermine, R.P. Church
ADS 94 citations

The Origin and Evolution of the Halo PN BoBn 1: From a Viewpoint of Chemical Abundances Based on Multiwavelength Spectra
Masaaki Otsuka, Akito Tajitsu, Siek Hyung, Hideyuki Izumiura
ADS 50 citations

White-dwarf kicks and implications for barium stars
R.G. Izzard, T. Dermine, R.P. Church
ADS 94 citations

Massive binaries and the enrichment of the interstellar medium in globular clusters
S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard
ADS 7 citations

Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes of early Galactic nucleosynthesis
O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, E. Glebbeek, R.J. Stancliffe
ADS 2 citations

GALEV Evolutionary Synthesis Models: Why Are They Special?
Peter Anders, R. Kotulla, R. Izzard, I. Brott
ADS

2009

The impact of binary-star yields on the spectra of galaxies
A.E. Sansom, R.G. Izzard, P. Ocvirk
ADS 4 citations

Population synthesis of binary carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
R.G. Izzard, E. Glebbeek, R.J. Stancliffe, O.R. Pols
ADS 172 citations

Massive binaries as the source of abundance anomalies in globular clusters
S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, N. Langer, R.G. Izzard
ADS 456 citations

2008

Fluorine in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: a binary scenario
M. Lugaro, S.E. de Mink, R.G. Izzard, S.W. Campbell, A.I. Karakas, S. Cristallo, O.R. Pols, J.C. Lattanzio, O. Straniero, R. Gallino, T.C. Beers
ADS 35 citations

Gamma-ray bursts from tidally spun-up Wolf-Rayet stars?
R.G. Detmers, N. Langer, Ph. Podsiadlowski, R.G. Izzard
ADS 122 citations

The Mysterious R Stars
Robert G. Izzard, C.Simon Jeffery, John Lattanzio
ADS 2 citations

Modelling the evolution and nucleosynthesis of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, M. Lugaro, S.E. de Mink
ADS 11 citations

2007

Origin of the early-type R stars: a binary-merger solution to a century-old problem?
R.G. Izzard, C.S. Jeffery, J. Lattanzio
ADS 58 citations

Reaction rate uncertainties and the operation of the NeNa and MgAl chains during HBB in intermediate-mass AGB stars
R.G. Izzard, M. Lugaro, A.I. Karakas, C. Iliadis, M. van Raai
ADS 98 citations

Galactic Sodium from AGB Stars
R.G. Izzard, B.K. Gibson, R.J. Stancliffe
ADS

The s-process in stellar population synthesis: a new approach to understanding AGB stars
A. Bonačić Marinović, R.G. Izzard, M. Lugaro, O.R. Pols
ADS 20 citations

Binary AGB Nucleosynthesis
Robert G. Izzard, Onno R. Pols
ADS

The Century-old R-Star Mystery
Robert G. Izzard, C.Simon Jeffery, John Lattanzio
ADS 1 citations

2006

Population nucleosynthesis in single and binary stars. I. Model
R.G. Izzard, L.M. Dray, A.I. Karakas, M. Lugaro, C.A. Tout
ADS 170 citations

Window To The Stars
Robert G. Izzard, Evert Glebbeek
ADS 4 citations

Synthetic super-AGB stars
Robert G. Izzard, Arend Jan T. Poelarends
ADS 5 citations

Population synthesis of s-process element enhanced stars: Constraining the ¹³C efficiency
A. Bonačić Marinović, R.G. Izzard, M. Lugaro, O.R. Pols
ADS 7 citations

Software provides Window to the Stars
Robert Izzard, Evert Glebbeek
ADS

Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars -- effects of binary evolution at low metallicity
O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard
ADS

Reaction rate uncertainties and the operation of the NeNa and MgAl chains during HBB in intermediate-mass AGB stars
Robert Izzard, Maria Lugaro, Christian Illadis, Amanda Karakas
ADS 2 citations

2004

A binary origin for low-luminosity carbon stars
Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 28 citations

Formation rates of core-collapse supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
Robert G. Izzard, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 163 citations

A new synthetic model for asymptotic giant branch stars
Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout, Amanda I. Karakas, Onno R. Pols
ADS 317 citations

2003

Nucleosynthesis in Binary Populations
Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
ADS 12 citations