Hydrodynamics and survivability during post-main-sequence planetary engulfment

Abstract

The engulfment of substellar bodies (SBs, such as brown dwarfs and planets) by giant stars is a possible explanation for rapidly rotating giants, lithium-rich giants, and the presence of SBs in close orbits around subdwarfs and white dwarfs. We simulate the flow in the vicinity of an engulfed SB in three-dimensional hydrodynamics. We model the SB as a rigid body with a reflective surface because it cannot accrete. This reflective boundary changes the flow morphology to resemble that of engulfed compact objects with outflows. We measure the drag coefficients for the ram pressure and gravitational drag forces acting on the SB, and use them to integrate its trajectory inside the star. We find that engulfment can increase the luminosity of a $1M_{\odot }$ star by up to a few orders of magnitude. The time for the star to return to its original luminosity is up to a few thousand years when the star has evolved to $\approx 10R_{\odot }$ and up to a few decades at the tip of the red giant branch. No SBs can eject the envelope of a $1M_{\odot }$ star before it evolves to $\approx 10R_{\odot }$, if the orbit of the SB is the only energy source contributing to the ejection. In contrast, SBs as small as $\approx 10M_{\text{Jup}}$ can eject the envelope at the tip of the red giant branch. The numerical framework we introduce here can be used to study planetary engulfment in a simplified setting that captures the physics of the flow at the scale of the SB.

arXiv comment20 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Comments welcome. Reproducibility repository at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6368226

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