Binary stars

This project aims to understand how binary stellar evolution affects the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Complemented by binary population modelling to determine the relative importances of each binary evolution channel, we will perform the first comprehensive set of binary yield calculations for low-mass stars and stellar mergers, as well as the first yield calculations metal-poor binaries. Propagating the results of these calculations into models for the chemical evolution of the Milky Way, we will produce the first galactic chemical evolution models that account for how binary stellar evolution affects stellar nucleosynthesis.