Floor Broekgaarden

Floor Broekgaarden

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Assistant Professor of Astronomy at UC San Diego. Building a research group in Gravitational Wave Paleontology.

Animations and Interactive Figures

Animations

VIMES — Visualization of Massive Evolving Stars  Laya Binu · 2025

Laya Binu (GW Paleontology Lab, UC San Diego) · GitHub

VIMES is an interactive visualization tool for massive evolving stars, developed by GW Paleontology group member Laya Binu. The tool provides animated visual representations of stellar evolution tracks and properties, making it easier to explore and communicate how massive stars evolve over their lifetimes.

Interactive Figures

Formation Channel Rates — Interactive Catalog

Broekgaarden et al. 2026 · How Common Are Common Envelopes? Quantifying Their Role in Forming Gravitational-Wave Sources

Interactive table and figures exploring the fractional contributions of formation channels (with and without common-envelope evolution) across 200+ population-synthesis simulations for binary black holes, BH–neutron star systems, and binary neutron stars. Includes sortable tables, parameter comparisons, and rate distributions.

Open interactive catalog arXiv:2606.05322

LOWER YOUR RATES — Interactive Figures and Tables

Broekgaarden et al. · On Claims of a Binary Black Hole Merger-Rate Crisis

Interactive figures and tables for the LOWER YOUR RATES paper exploring binary black hole merger rate constraints and comparisons across different studies and methodologies.

Open interactive figures Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.5072400 GitHub