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Keck Infrared Transient Survey I: Survey Description and Data Release 1
S. Tinyanont, R. J. Foley, K. Taggart +35
We present the Keck Infrared Transient Survey (KITS), a NASA Key Strategic Mission Support program to obtain near-infrared (NIR) spectra of astrophysical transients of all types, a…
Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: Range of Applicability and Self-Similarity in Realistic Stellar Envelopes
Rosa Wallace Everson, Morgan MacLeod, Soumi De +2
Common envelope evolution, the key orbital tightening phase of the traditional formation channel for close binaries, is a multistage process that presents many challenges to the es…
The Stars in M15 Were Born with the r-process
Evan N. Kirby, Gina Duggan, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +1
High-resolution spectroscopy of stars on the red giant branch (RGB) of the globular cluster M15 has revealed a large (~1 dex) dispersion in the abundances of r-process elements, li…
Accretion Disk Assembly During Common Envelope Evolution: Implications for Feedback and LIGO Binary Black Hole Formation
Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +2
During a common envelope episode in a binary system, the engulfed companion spirals to tighter orbital separations under the influence of drag from the surrounding envelope materia…
Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: Coefficients of Drag and Accretion in a Simplified Context for Studying Flows Around Objects Embedded Within Stellar Envelopes
Morgan MacLeod, Andrea Antoni, Ariadna Murgia-Berthier +2
This paper examines the properties of flows around objects embedded within common envelopes in the simplified context of a "wind tunnel." We establish characteristic relationships…
Lessons from the Onset of a Common Envelope Episode: the Remarkable M31 2015 Luminous Red Nova Outburst
Morgan MacLeod, Phillip Macias, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +3
This paper investigates the recent stellar merger transient M31LRN 2015 in the Andromeda galaxy. We analyze published optical photometry and spectroscopy along with a Hubble Space…