Common envelopes at StanFest
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2024-12-17 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We describe some of our group's recent work on common envelopes. Our goal is to understand the onset and outcomes of dynamically unstable mass transfer, including the properties of the binaries left behind and the outflows during the common envelope stage. We have also started thinking about light curves of common envelope events. During a talk at StanFest, a meeting in honour of Stan Owocki's retirement held in Leuven in July, 2024, the first author reported on some of the results we recently obtained and briefly outlined future prospects.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.10691,
title = {Common envelopes at StanFest},
author = {Ilya Mandel and Ryosuke Hirai and Lewis Picker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10691},
year = {2024}
}