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Polygram Stars: Resonant Tidal Excitation of Fundamental Oscillation Modes in Asynchronous Stellar Coalescence
Morgan MacLeod, Michelle Vick, Dong Lai +1
The prevalence of binary stars at close separations implies that many of these systems will interact or merge during the binary's lifetime. This paper presents hydrodynamic simulat…
Bound Outflows, Unbound Ejecta, and the Shaping of Bipolar Remnants during Stellar Coalescence
Morgan MacLeod, Eve C. Ostriker, James M. Stone
Recent observations have revealed that the remnants of stellar-coalescence transients are bipolar. This raises the questions of how these bipolar morphologies arise and what they t…
Runaway Coalescence at the Onset of Common Envelope Episodes
Morgan MacLeod, Eve C. Ostriker, James M. Stone
Luminous red nova transients, presumably from stellar coalescence, exhibit long-term precursor emission over hundreds of binary orbits, leading to impulsive outbursts with duration…
Discovery of three self-lensing binaries from Kepler
Hajime Kawahara, Kento Masuda, Morgan MacLeod +3
We report the discovery of three edge-on binaries with white dwarf companions that gravitationally magnify (instead of eclipsing) the light of their stellar primaries, as revealed…
Planetary Engulfment in the Hertzsprung--Russell Diagram
Morgan MacLeod, Matteo Cantiello, Melinda Soares-Furtado
Planets accompany most sun-like stars. The orbits of many are sufficiently close that they will be engulfed when their host stars ascend the giant branch. This Letter compares the…