5 papers
Red novae, their progenitors, and remnants
Tomasz Kaminski, Nadejda Blagorodnova
Red novae or luminous red novae are a class of optical transients that have emerged over the past two decades. They occupy an intermediate luminosity regime between classical novae…
Dynamical binary interactions in the 2040s
Nadejda Blagorodnova, OndÅej Pejcha, Tomek KamiÅski +15
Dynamical binary interactions such as common envelope (CE) evolution or stellar mergers are a critical phase in the formation of a wide variety of binary phenomena, ranging from bl…
Constraining the physical structure of the circumstellar environment of V838 Monocerotis remnant
Muhammad Zain Mobeen, Tomasz KamiÅski, Stephen Potter
V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) erupted in 2002 as a luminous red nova after which it cooled and began to form dust. The remnant is predicted to become a blue straggler. Interferometri…
OGLE-2002-BLG-360: a dusty anomaly among red nova remnants
T. Steinmetz, T. KamiÅski, C. Melis +4
OGLE-2002-BLG-360 is an example of a Galactic red nova, the aftermath of a non-compact stellar merger. The dusty nature of the circumstellar environment makes observations of this…
Discovery of ionized circumstellar gas emission around the long-period Cepheid Carinae with ALMA
V. Hocdé, T. KamiÅski, M. Lewis +3
Cepheid circumstellar emissions have previously been detected via both infrared excess and infrared interferometric observations at a few stellar radii. Those studies have shown th…