We derive and introduce a new magnetic braking scheme which can effectively reproduce a sample of well studied observed LMXBs.
A study of the most commonly used magnetic braking prescription and how effectively this prescription can reproduce observed LMXBs. We definitively show that the most commonly used prescription fails to reproduce observed systems and should not be used.
Showed that there is a range where mass transfer from massive giants onto a black hole is stable. This significantly reduced the simulated BH-BH binary formation rate to fall in line with LIGO observations.
Presented an alternative method in producing black hole X-ray binaries where a black hole captures a subgiant donor and strips a significant amount of mass off the donor.