Rachel A Patton

Rachel A Patton studies how stars form, evolve, and eventually collapse into compact remnants like neutron stars and black holes, using computational models and large survey datasets. Her work combines stellar evolution modeling (including public modeling codes) with observational catalogs of red giant stars from missions like Kepler and APOGEE, as well as studies of unusual stars formed by stellar mergers. This research helps connect theoretical predictions about stars' internal structure to what telescopes actually observe, and informs how populations of binary star systems and their remnants are simulated.

Publication output has been modest but has grown somewhat in recent years, rising from sporadic single papers earlier in the decade to multiple outputs per year in 2024-2026.

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