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The Landscape of Unstable Mass Transfer in Interacting Binaries and Its Imprint on the Population of Luminous Red Novae
Angela A. G. Twum, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Morgan MacLeod +4
A common-envelope (CE) phase occurs when a star engulfs its companion and is widely considered the primary channel for producing Luminous Red Novae (LRNe). In this study, we combin…
Black Hole Survival Guide: Searching for Stars in the Galactic Center That Endure Partial Tidal Disruption
Rewa Clark Bush, Samantha C. Wu, Rosa Wallace Everson +3
Once per 10,000-100,000 years, an unlucky star may experience a close encounter with a supermassive black hole (SMBH), partially or fully tearing apart the star in an exceedingly b…
The Energy Sharing Timescale in an Analytic Framework for Common Envelope Hydrodynamics
Rosa Wallace Everson, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
We propose a new predictive theory for the analysis of common envelope (CE) events which incorporates the effects of relevant hydrodynamical processes into a simple analytical fram…
Population synthesis of Thorne-Żytkow objects: Rejuvenated donors and unexplored progenitors in the common envelope formation channel
K. Nathaniel, A. Vigna-Gómez, A. Grichener +3
Context. Common envelope evolution of a massive star and a neutron star companion has two possible outcomes: formation of a short-period binary (a potential gravitational wave sour…
The Evolution of Binaries Embedded Within Common Envelopes
Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon, Ricardo Yarza, Ariadna Murguia-Berthier +5
Triple stellar systems allow us to study stellar processes that cannot be attained in binary stars. The evolutionary phases in which the stellar members undergo mass exchanges can…
Rethinking Thorne-Żytkow Object Formation: The Fate of X-ray Binary LMC X-4 and Implications for Ultra-long Gamma-ray Bursts
Tenley Hutchinson-Smith, Rosa Wallace Everson, Angela A. Twum +5
We present a start-to-end simulation aimed at studying the long-term fate of high-mass X-ray binaries and whether a Thorne-Żytkow object (TŻO) might ultimately be assembled. We ana…