Post Mass Transfer Catalog

About

This project aims to provide a comprehensive catalog and analysis of post-mass transfer binary systems, including their key properties and observational data. The data is structured for easy analysis and reproducibility, supporting the astrophysics community in understanding binary evolution.

Download catalog

You can download the catalog in JSON format here.

Data Structure

All systems are stored in a json dictionary with at least the following columns (with key quantities as [err-, value, err+] triplets):

System Name, RA, Dec, Period, Eccentricity, M1, M1_sin3i, M2, M2_sin3i, q, Mass Function, Type1, Type2, Detection Method, Reference, Notes

Example entry:

{
"System Name": "Example system",
"RA": [0.005, 150.025, 0.005],
"Dec": [0.004, -45.123, 0.004],
"Period": [0.2, 12.5, 0.3],
"Eccentricity": [0.02, 0.30, 0.03],
"M1": [0.5, 5.0, 0.5],
...
}

Missing values are represented as np.nan. Lower/upper limits are handled using the M1_sin3i and M2_sin3i columns.

Catalog description paper

Processed tables and data products are available in the result_tables/ directory. Each file contains results for different post-mass transfer systems. See the project repository for details.

Interactive Plots

Have fun exploring the data below! The interactive plots are generated using the Plotly library. You can find the code for the plots in the plots/ directory.

Add missing systems

For questions or contributions, please open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository.