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Stellar Obliquity Excitation via Disk Dispersal-Driven Resonances in Binaries
Yubo Su, Dong Lai
The stellar obliquity of a planetary system is often used to help constrain the system's formation and evolution. One of the mechanisms to reorient the stellar spin involves a secu…
Metal pollution in Sun-like stars from destruction of ultra-short-period planets
Christopher E. O'Connor, Dong Lai
Chemical evidence indicates that an appreciable fraction of Sun-like stars have engulfed rocky planets during their main-sequence lifetimes. We investigate whether the tidal evolut…
Extreme resonant eccentricity excitation of stars around merging black-hole binary
Bin Liu, Dong Lai
We study the dynamics of a star orbiting a merging black-hole binary (BHB) in a coplanar triple configuration. During the BHB's orbital decay, the system can be driven across the a…
Mass Ejection Driven by Sudden Energy Deposition in Stellar Envelopes
Nicholas Corso, Dong Lai
A number of stellar astrophysical phenomena, such as tidal novae and planetary engulfment, involve sudden injection of sub-binding energy in a thin layer within the star, leading t…