Ecosystem papers - progenax — differentiable initial conditions for N-body simulations

This page indexes the reference material behind progenax’s design choices — papers that informed the implementation but may not be directly cited in any single chapter: comparison codes, methodology references, and surveys.

For the formally-cited papers (with their per-paper detail pages), see Per-paper detail pages. For the full bibliography, see Bibliography.

Code methodology papers¶

PDF	Topic
`Allison_MassSegregation_2009.pdf`	Allison et al. (2009) MST-based mass-segregation diagnostic
`Baumgardt_MassSegregation_2008.pdf`	Baumgardt et al. (2008) energy-ranked primordial segregation
`Subr_MassSegregation_2008.pdf`	Šubr+ alternative interparticle-energy construction (not implemented in progenax)
`Goodwin_fractal_substructure_2004.pdf`	Goodwin & Whitworth (2004) recursive-tree fractal IC
`McLusterManual.pdf`, `McLuster_Methods_2011.pdf`	Küpper et al. (2011) McLuster code — progenax’s primary cross-validation reference

Population synthesis codes¶

PDF	Topic
`COMPAS-methods-01.pdf`, `COMPAS-methods-02.pdf`	COMPAS binary population synthesis methodology — comparable framework to progenax+startrax (planned)
`BoOST-2022.pdf`	Bonn Optimised Stellar Tracks — relevant to stellar evolution (stellax planned)

IMF reference papers¶

PDF	Topic
`Marks-IMF-mnras-2012.pdf`	Marks et al. (2012) cluster-scale IMF variation (incl. the Fundamental Plane)
`Jerabkova-IMF-aa-2018.pdf`	Jeřábková et al. (2018) IGIMF framework

Binary statistics¶

PDF	Topic
`Moe_2019_ApJ_875_61.pdf`	Moe et al. (2019) metallicity dependence of close-binary fraction
`Sana-HM-binaries-2025.pdf`	Sana high-mass-binary follow-up (post-2012 work)

How these are used¶

The PDFs themselves are reference assets — read to understand the methodology, not directly cited line-by-line. Progenax’s chapters cite these papers via the BibTeX entries in references.bib; the chapters explain the relevant physics in their own words rather than quoting verbatim.

For published work that is cited (and gets its own detail page), see Per-paper detail pages.

References¶

Allison, R. J., Goodwin, S. P., Parker, R. J., Portegies Zwart, S. F., de Grijs, R., & Kouwenhoven, M. B. N. (2009). Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 395, 1449–1454. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14508.x
Baumgardt, H., De Marchi, G., & Kroupa, P. (2008). Evidence for primordial mass segregation in globular clusters. The Astrophysical Journal, 685, 247–253. 10.1086/590488
Goodwin, S. P., & Whitworth, A. P. (2004). The dynamical evolution of fractal star clusters: The survival of substructure. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 413, 929–937. 10.1051/0004-6361:20031529
Küpper, A. H. W., Maschberger, T., Kroupa, P., & Baumgardt, H. (2011). Mass segregation and fractal substructure in young massive clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417, 2300–2317. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19412.x
Marks, M., Kroupa, P., Dabringhausen, J., & Pawlowski, M. S. (2012). Evidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, 2246–2254. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20767.x
Jeřábková, T., Kroupa, P., Dabringhausen, J., Hilker, M., & Bekki, K. (2018). Impact of metallicity and star formation rate on the time-dependent, galaxy-wide stellar initial mass function. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620, A39. 10.1051/0004-6361/201833055
Moe, M., Kratter, K. M., & Badenes, C. (2019). The close binary fraction of solar-type stars is strongly anticorrelated with metallicity. The Astrophysical Journal, 875, 61. 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0d88