Welcome to BOSSA’s documentation!

The Binary Object environment-Sensitive Sampling Algorithm (BOSSA) generates samples of ZAMS binaries (or higher-order multiples) consistent with the metallicity- and star formation rate-dependent IMF by Jeřábková et al. (2018), the cosmic star-formation history by Chruślińska & Nelemans (2019) and Chruślińska, Jeřábková, Nelemans & Yan (2020); and the correlated orbital parameter distributions by Moe & Di Stefano (2017). Although the ouput is written with COMPAS in mind, it does not depend on it.

You can find BOSSA’s methods paper as de Sá et al. (2024a) and it’s first implementation as de Sá et al. (2024b).

Documentation progress

Documentation and comments are gradually being added to the code. Progress:

• constants: partially documented,

• utils: not documented,

• imf: complete,

• sfh: complete,

• sampling: partially documented,

  • RandomSampling: complete,

  • GalaxyStellarMassSampling: complete,

  • GalaxyGrid: complete,

  • SimpleBinaryPopulation: partially documented,

  • CompositeBinaryPopulation: not documented,

• postprocessing: not documented.

Contents:

• bossa package
  • Submodules
  • bossa.constants module
  • bossa.imf module
  • bossa.postprocessing module
  • bossa.sampling module
  • bossa.sfh module
  • bossa.utils module
  • bossa.zams module
  • Module contents