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Interacting binaries can produce a wide range of exotic systems, including X-ray binaries and merging neutron stars, through a mass transfer phase called Common Envelope (CE) evolution. A CE phase can occur during rapid expansion as a star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Alexander D. Hall-Smith , Sophie E. D. Abrahams , Alison M. Laird , Christian Aa. Diget , Christopher Fryer , Samuel W. Jones

Over forty years of research suggests that the common envelope phase, in which an evolved star engulfs its companion upon expansion, is the critical evolutionary stage forming short-period, compact-object binary systems, such as coalescing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Tassos Fragos , Jeff J. Andrews , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Georges Meynet , Vicky Kalogera , Ronald E. Taam , Andreas Zezas

The common envelope phase is a likely formation channel for close binary systems containing compact objects. Neutron stars in common envelopes accrete at a fraction of the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion rate, since the stellar envelope is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Miguel Holgado , Paul M. Ricker , E. A. Huerta

Massive-star binaries can undergo a phase where one of the two stars expands during its advanced evolutionary stage as a giant and envelops its companion, ejecting the hydrogen envelope and tightening its orbit. Such a common envelope phase…

Massive stars commonly form binaries that can evolve into compact systems via common envelope evolution (CEE), a critical but poorly understood phase -- especially when the companion is a neutron star. Understanding the drag force exerted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Daiyu Sakurai , Ryuichiro Akaho , Shoichi Yamada

We simulate the influence of the energy that the merger process of two neutron stars (NSs) releases inside a red supergiant (RSG) star on the RSG envelope inner to the merger location. In the triple star common envelope evolution (CEE) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

Neutron stars (NSs) in the astrophysical universe are often surrounded by accretion disks. Accretion of matter onto an NS may increase its mass above the maximum value allowed by its equation of state, inducing its collapse to a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-24 Bruno Giacomazzo , Rosalba Perna

Common envelope (CE) is an important phase in the evolution of many binary systems. Giant star / compact object interaction in binaries plays an important role in high-energy phenomena as well as in the evolution of their environment.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Enrique Moreno Méndez , Diego López-Cámara , Fabio De Colle

Neutron stars inspiralling into a stellar envelope can accrete at rates vastly exceeding the Eddington limit if the flow develops pressures high enough to allow neutrinos to radiate the released gravitational energy. It has been suggested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip J. Armitage , Mario Livio

This paper examines flows in the immediate vicinity of stars and compact objects dynamically inspiralling within a common envelope (CE). Flow in the vicinity of the embedded object is gravitationally focused leading to drag and potential to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

I suggest a spiral-in process by which a stellar companion graze the envelope of a giant star while both the orbital separation and the giant radius shrink simultaneously, and a close binary system is formed. The binary system might be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Noam Soker

The common envelope (CE) interaction describes the swallowing of a nearby companion by a growing, evolving star. CEs that take place during the asymptotic giant branch phase of the primary and may lead to the formation of a planetary nebula…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James Tocknell , Orsola De Marco , Mark Wardle

We perform population synthesis of massive binaries to study the mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) with the cores of their giant secondaries during common envelope evolution (CEE). We use different values of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-08 Aldana Grichener

Common envelope evolution (CEE) is presently a poorly understood, yet critical, process in binary stellar evolution. Characterizing the full 3D dynamics of CEE is difficult in part because simulating CEE is so computationally demanding.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Luke Chamandy , Adam Frank , Eric G. Blackman , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Baowei Liu , Yisheng Tu , Jason Nordhaus , Zhuo Chen , Bo Peng

Common-envelope evolution is important in the formation of neutron star binaries within the isolated binary formation channel. As a neutron star inspirals within the envelope of a primary massive star, it accretes and spins up. Because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 A. Miguel Holgado , Hector O. Silva , Paul M. Ricker , Nicolas Yunes

The evolution of neutron stars (NSs) embedded within massive stellar envelopes is a critical phase in binary stellar evolution, potentially leading to the formation of Thorne-\.Zytkow Objects (T\.ZOs) or catastrophic collapse. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , David Radice , Christopher L. Fryer

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) events where we assume that a neutron star (NS) launches jets as it orbits inside the outer zones of a red supergiant (RSG) envelope, and find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Shlomi Hillel , Ron Schreier , Noam Soker

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) are among the most interesting sources for multimessenger studies. A number of recently discovered BNSs in the Milky Way by radio telescopes have added new information to the parameter distribution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhiwei Chen , Jihui Zhang , Youjun Lu , Jifeng Liu , Changwen Zeng

The merger of neutron star (NS)-NS binary can form different production of the compact remnant, among which the supramassive NS (SMNS) could create an internal plateau and the followed steep decay marks the collapse of the SMNS. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Yun-Peng Li , Zhi-Lin Chen , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

In this paper, we investigate the properties of binary neutron stars (BNSs) and their mergers by combining population synthesis models for binary stellar evolution (BSE) with cosmological galaxy formation and evolution models. We obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Qingbo Chu , Shenghua Yu , Youjun Lu
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