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Tidal Dissipation Impact on the Eccentric Onset of Common Envelope Phases in Massive Binary Star Systems
Michelle Vick, Morgan MacLeod, Dong Lai +1
Tidal dissipation due to turbulent viscosity in the convective regions of giant stars plays an important role in shaping the orbits of pre-common envelope systems. Such systems are…
Hydrodynamic Winds From Twin-Star Binaries
Morgan MacLeod, Abraham Loeb
Stellar winds shape the evolution of stars through the loss of mass. In binary systems, they also shape the stars' evolution by modifying the orbit. In this paper, we use hydrodyna…
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…
Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs: Theoretical Models and Observational Prospects
Kate Maguire, Michael Eracleous, Peter G. Jonker +2
White dwarf stars that enter the tidal radius of black holes with masses M are doomed to be ripped apart by tidal forces. Black holes in this mass range…
A mildly relativistic outflow from the energetic, fast-rising blue optical transient CSS161010 in a dwarf galaxy
D. L. Coppejans, R. Margutti, G. Terreran +35
We present X-ray and radio observations of the Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) CRTS-CSS161010 J045834-081803 (CSS161010 hereafter) at t=69-531 days. CSS161010 shows luminous X-r…
Pre-Common-Envelope Mass Loss from Coalescing Binary Systems
Morgan MacLeod, Abraham Loeb
Binary systems undergoing unstable Roche Lobe overflow spill gas into their circumbinary environment as their orbits decay toward coalescence. In this paper, we use a suite of hydr…