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Inflated Supermassive Stars as Little Red Dots and Progenitors of Supermassive Black Holes
Wenbin Lu
JWST has uncovered an abundant population of compact, red sources at high redshifts, termed little red dots (LRDs). We study whether they could be explained by thermally relaxed, h…
Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides
Howard Hao-Tse Huang, Wenbin Lu
Hills breakup of binary systems allows massive black holes (MBH) to produce hyper-velocity stars (HVSs) and tightly bound stars. The long timescale of orbital relaxation means that…
A Star's Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Runaway Periodic Eruptions of AT2023uqm
Yibo Wang, Tingui Wang, Shifeng Huang +37
Stars on bound orbits around a supermassive black hole may undergo repeated partial tidal disruption events (rpTDEs), producing periodic flares. While several candidates have been…
Radiatively Cooled Binary Mass Transfer: Flow Structure, Luminosities, and L2 Outflows Across Mass Transfer Rates
Peter Scherbak, Wenbin Lu, Jim Fuller
High rates of stable mass transfer (MT) occur for some binary star systems, resulting in luminous transients and circumbinary outflows (CBOs). We perform hydrodynamical simulations…
Fates of Rotating Supergiants from Stellar Mergers and the Landscape of Transients upon Core-collapse
Daichi Tsuna, Jim Fuller, Wenbin Lu
We present a grid of rotating supergiant models from post-main sequence binary merger products, constructed by the MESA stellar evolution code. We focus on the evolution of these s…
Accretion from a shock-inflated companion: double-peaked supernova lightcurve with periodic modulations
Wenbin Lu, Savannah Cary, Daichi Tsuna
We study the observational signatures from the interactions between a newly born neutron star and a companion star that is impacted by the supernova ejecta. We focus on the cases w…