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Magnetars are proposed to be peculiar neutron stars powered by their super strong magnetic field. Observationally, anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters are believed to be magnetar candidates. While more and more multiwave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Tong , R. X. Xu

Hydrogen-deficient binary stars comprise one star which has been stripped of its hydrogen through mass transfer to a binary companion. Observations show that the companion is able to accrete several solar masses without spinning up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 David A. Bour , Avishai Gilkis , Christopher A. Tout

The wind braking model and its applications of magnetars are discussed. The decreasing torque of magnetars during outbursts, anti-glitch, and anti-correlations between radiation and timing are understandable in the wind braking model.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-30 H. Tong

Current scenarios for the evolution of interacting close binaries - such as cataclysmic variables (CVs) - rely mainly on our understanding of low-mass star angular momentum loss (AML) mechanisms. The coupling of stellar wind with its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 T. Ribeiro , R. Baptista , S. Kafka , P. Dufour , A. Gianninas , G. Fontaine

A binary in which a slightly evolved star starts mass transfer to a neutron star can evolve towards ultra-short orbital periods under the influence of magnetic braking. This is called magnetic capture. In a previous paper we showed that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. van der Sluys , F. Verbunt , O. R. Pols

Magnetic braking causes the spin-down of single stars as they evolve on the main sequence. Models of magnetic braking can also explain the evolution of close binary systems, including cataclysmic variables. The well-known period gap in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-24 G. A. J. Hussain

We study the effect of a white dwarf on the spin-down of a cataclysmic variable system using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical model. The model includes the stellar corona, the stellar wind, and the WD mass and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap

(adapted)Considering recent observations challenging the traditional magnetar model, we explore the wind braking of magnetars. There is evidence for strong multipole magnetic fields in active magnetars, but the dipole field inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Tong , R. X. Xu , L. M. Song , G. J. Qiao

We present a description for the angular momentum loss rate due to magnetic braking for late type stars taking into account recent observational data on the relationship between stellar activity and rotation. The analysis is based on an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Natalia Ivanova , Ronald E. Taam

Our binary evolutionary code predicted until now the position of both stars in the HRD, the characteristics of the accretion disk around the gainer in the case that there is enough space between both stars for this disk. Our code includes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Walter van Rensbergen , Jean Pierre de Greve

Binary systems with neutron stars and double degenerate systems are crucial objects to test current stellar evolution models and Einstein's general relativity. In this study, we present angular momentum loss mechanism via gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-15 T. İçli , K. Yakut

Dwarf Novae and low-mass X-ray binaries are eruptive binary systems comprised of a Roche-lobe overflowing solar-type star and an accreting compact object. Their recurrence time can be explained by a low-accreting phase, the quiescence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Marc Van den Bossche , Geoffroy Lesur , Guillaume Dubus

During the first half of their main-sequence lifetimes, stars rapidly lose angular momentum to their magnetized winds, a process known as magnetic braking. Recent observations suggest a substantial decrease in the magnetic braking…

Context. Recent observations of close detached eclipsing M and K dwarf binaries have provided substantial support for magnetic saturation when stars rotate sufficiently fast, leading to a magnetic braking (MB) torque proportional to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-09 Diogo Belloni , Matthias R. Schreiber , Maxwell Moe , Kareem El-Badry , Ken J. Shen

Angular momentum loss (AML) mechanisms and dynamical evolution owing to magnetic braking and gravitational radiation in relativistic binary stars (RBS) are studied with use of physical parameters collected from the literature. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-05 K. Yakut , B. Kalomeni , C. A. Tout

WY Cancri is a short-period ($P$=0.829 d) eclipsing RS Canum Venaticorum stars, and both components are late-type stars. Recently, observations provided by photometric observations and light time minima show that the orbital period of WY…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wen-Cong Chen

We examine the proposal that the subset of neutron-star and black-hole X-ray binaries that form with Ap or Bp star companions will experience systemic angular-momentum losses due to magnetic braking, not otherwise operative with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Justham , S. Rappaport , Ph. Podsiadlowski

Supermassive stars (SMSs) are candidates for being progenitors of supermassive quasars at high redshifts. However, their formation process requires strong mechanisms that would be able to extract the angular momentum of the gas that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Lionel Haemmerlé , Georges Meynet

Ultracompact binary systems, consisting of two compact objects in an orbit $\lesssim 0.5 R_\odot$, should exhibit measurable rates of orbital period change ($\dot{P} \neq 0$) due to the emission of gravitational waves (GWs). Measurements of…

Millisecond pulsars are old, fast spinning neutron stars thought to have evolved from classical pulsars in binary systems, where the rapid rotation is caused by the accretion of matter and angular momentum from their companion. During this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Marilyn Cruces , Andreas Reisenegger , Thomas M. Tauris
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