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astro-ph.SR2024
Common envelopes at StanFest
Ilya Mandel, Ryosuke Hirai, Lewis Picker
We describe some of our group's recent work on common envelopes. Our goal is to understand the onset and outcomes of dynamically unstable mass transfer, including the properties of…
astro-ph.SR2024
Fits for the convective envelope mass in massive stars
Lewis Picker, Ryosuke Hirai, Ilya Mandel
We explore the evolution of massive stars (>8 solar masses) with 1-D models and present analytical fits to the masses and binding energies of the convective portions of their envel…