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Orbital eccentricities of binary systems with a former AGB star
A. A. Bonacic Marinovic, E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols
Many binary stellar systems in which the primary star is beyond the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) evolutionary phase show significant orbital eccentricities whereas current binary…
Can low metallicity binaries avoid merging?
S. E. de Mink, M. Cottaar, O. R. Pols
Rapid mass transfer in a binary system can drive the accreting star out of thermal equilibrium, causing it to expand. This can lead to a contact system, strong mass loss from the s…
When Stars Collide
E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols
When two stars collide and merge they form a new star that can stand out against the background population in a starcluster as a blue straggler. In so called collision runaways man…
Building Blue Stragglers with Stellar Collisions
E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols
The evolution of stellar collision products in cluster simulations has usually been modelled using simplified prescriptions. Such prescriptions either replace the collision product…
Binaries at Low Metallicity: ranges for case A, B and C mass transfer
S. E. de Mink, O. R. Pols, S. -C. Yoon
The evolution of single stars at low metallicity has attracted a large interest, while the effect of metallicity on binary evolution remains still relatively unexplored. We study t…
Critically rotating stars in binaries - an unsolved problem -
S. E. de Mink, O. R. Pols, E. Glebbeek
In close binaries mass and angular momentum can be transferred from one star to the other during Roche-lobe overflow. The efficiency of this process is not well understood and cons…