4 papers
Oxygen Isotope Ratios in Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon Stars: A Correlation with Effective Temperature and Implications for White Dwarf Merger Outcomes
Advait Mehla, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Viraj Karambelkar +5
Hydrogen-deficient Carbon (HdC) stars are a class of supergiants with anomalous chemical compositions, suggesting that they are remnants of CO-He white dwarf (WD) mergers. This cla…
A Comprehensive Study of the Dust Declines in R Coronae Borealis Stars
Courtney L. Crawford, Jamie Soon, Geoffrey C. Clayton +4
The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) variables are rare, hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich supergiants known for large, erratic declines in brightness due to dust formation. Recently, the nu…
Hydrodynamic simulations of WD-WD mergers and the origin of RCB stars
Sagiv Shiber, Orsola De Marco, Patrick M. Motl +10
We study the properties of double white dwarf (DWD) mergers by performing hydrodynamic simulations using the new and improved adaptive mesh refinement code Octo-Tiger. We follow th…
Modelling Hydrogen-deficient Carbon stars in MESA -- The effects of total mass and mass ratio
Courtney L. Crawford, Nikita Nikultsev, Geoffrey C. Clayton +3
Hydrogen-deficient Carbon (HdC) stars are rare, low-mass, chemically peculiar, supergiant variables believed to be formed by a double white dwarf (DWD) merger, specifically of a Ca…