Citing POSYDON

Core POSYDON citations

Any publication, presentation, data product, or other work that uses POSYDON or any part of the POSYDON infrastructure is expected to cite all current POSYDON instrument papers:

Fragos et al. (2023), “POSYDON: A General-purpose Population Synthesis Code with Detailed Binary-evolution Simulations,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 264, 45
Andrews et al. (2025), “POSYDON Version 2: Population Synthesis with Detailed Binary-evolution Simulations across a Cosmological Range of Metallicities,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 281, 3

This list will be updated as additional POSYDON instrument papers are published.

Component-specific citations

In addition to all core POSYDON citations above, please cite every methodological paper associated with the POSYDON capabilities used in your analysis.

POSYDON component	Additional citation(s)
Spectral synthesis	Kasdagli et al. (2026), “Stellar Population Spectra Incorporating Detailed Binary Evolution using POSYDON,” arXiv:2606.13351 Townsend & Lopez (2023), “MSG: A software package for interpolating stellar spectra in pre-calculated grids,” Journal of Open Source Software, 8(81), 4602
Stellar-track interpolation	Demir et al. (2026), “Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Binary Evolution Simulations Using Dynamic Time Warping,” The Astrophysical Journal, 1004, 78 Srivastava et al. (2025), “Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Detailed Binary Evolution Simulations,” The Astrophysical Journal, 984, 154

If your work uses more than one component, cite the papers for each applicable component. This table will grow as new POSYDON capabilities and associated publications become available.

Acknowledgements

In addition to the applicable citations above, please include the following text in the acknowledgements of work that uses POSYDON or any part of its infrastructure:

The POSYDON project is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant awards GBMF8477 and GBMF12341), the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant awards CRSII5_213497 and 2000-1-243011), and the Foundation for the University of Geneva (FUNIGE; grant award SWISS-ET).

Keeping citations current

Please consult this page when preparing a publication to make sure you include the latest core and component-specific citations. For a broader list of research using POSYDON, visit our Papers page.