Envelope Ejection and the Transition to Homologous Expansion in Common-Envelope Events

Vinaya Valsan, Sarah V. Borges, Logan Prust +1

We conduct a long-timescale ($5000$d) 3-D simulation of a common-envelope event with a $2M_{\odot }$ red giant and a $1M_{\odot }$ main sequence companion, using the moving-mes…