3 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
Contact-binary evolution with energy transfer and saturated magnetic braking
Matthias Fabry, Andrej Prša
The evolution of low-mass contact binaries is influenced by angular-momentum loss, mass and energy transfer, and the nuclear evolution of the components. They have periods shorter…
astro-ph.SR2025
Attributing the O'Connell effect in contact binaries to a cooling mass-transfer stream
Matthias Fabry, Andrej Prša
Contact binaries are very short-period systems that are continuously interacting by transferring mass and energy. Obtaining large, statistical samples of contact binaries from phot…
astro-ph.SR2025
Effects of limited core rejuvenation on the properties of massive contact binaries
Jelle Vandersnickt, Matthias Fabry
Context. Massive contact binaries are both stellar merger and gravitational wave progenitors, but their evolution is still uncertain. An open problem in the population synthesis of…