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The powerful wind-wind collision in massive star binaries creates a region of high temperature plasma and accelerates particles to relativistic energies. I briefly summarize the hydrodynamics of the wind-wind interaction and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-21 J. M. Pittard

Numerous numerical studies have been carried out in recent years that simulate different aspects of exoplanets' magnetosphere and stellar winds. These studies have focused primarily on hot Jupiters with sun-like stars. This study addresses…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Fatemeh Bagheri , Ramon E. Lopez , Kevin Pham

We present the results of a comprehensive numerical simulation of the environment around three exoplanet-host stars (HD 1237, HD 22049, and HD 147513). Our simulations consider one of the latest models currently used for space weather…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , G. A. J. Hussain , O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , C. Garraffo , J. Grunhut , T. I. Gombosi

Circumbinary planets experience a time varying irradiation pattern as they orbit their two host stars. In this work, we present the first detailed study of the atmospheric effects of this irradiation pattern on known and hypothetical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 E. M. May , E. Rauscher

Numerical models of the wind-blown bubble of massive stars usually only account for the wind of a single star. However, since massive stars are usually formed in clusters, it would be more realistic to follow the evolution of a bubble…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Alexandre Marcowith

Strong interactions between jets and stellar winds at binary system spatial scales could occur in high-mass microquasars. We study here, mainly from a dynamical but also a radiative point of view, the collision between a dense stellar wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Perucho , V. Bosch-Ramon

Cosmic rays can penetrate planetary atmospheres driving the formation of prebiotic molecules, which are important for the origin of life. We calculate the Galactic cosmic ray fluxes in the habitable zone of five nearby, well-studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 D. Rodgers-Lee , A. A. Vidotto , A. L. Mesquita

We study the hydrodynamical behavior occurring in the turbulent interaction zone of a fast moving red supergiant star, where the circumstellar and interstellar material collide. In this wind-interstellar medium collision, the familiar bow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-31 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Rony Keppens , Leen Decin

We present theoretical X-ray line profiles from a range of model colliding wind systems. In particular, we investigate the effects of varying the stellar mass-loss rates, the wind speeds, and the viewing orientation. We find that a wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. B. Henley , I. R. Stevens , J. M. Pittard

In this work, we investigate the dynamical effects of a sequence of close encounters over 200 Myr varying in the interval of 10000 -- 100000 au between a binary star system and passing stars with masses ranging from 0.1$M_{\odot}$ to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 David Bancelin , Thomas Nordlander , Elke Pilat-Lohinger , Birgit Loibnegger

Planetary rotation rate is a key parameter in determining atmospheric circulation and hence the spatial pattern of clouds. Since clouds can exert a dominant control on planetary radiation balance, rotation rate could be critical for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 Jun Yang , Gwenael Boue , Daniel C. Fabrycky , Dorian S. Abbot

Over the past decades, near-Earth spacecraft observations have provided insights into the physics of the bow shock, suggesting that solar wind intrinsic turbulence influences the bow shock dynamics. On the other hand, theoretical studies,…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 E. Behar , F. Pucci , C. Simon Wedlund , P. Henri , G. Ballerini , L. Preisser , F. Califano

Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars undergo strong tidal effects that modify their spin states. These planets are expected to host dense atmospheres that can also play an important role in the spin evolution. On one…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 E. F. S. Valente , A. C. M. Correia , P. Auclair-Desrotour , M. Farhat , J. Laskar

The magnetic activity of a star -- which modulates the stellar wind outflow -- shapes the immediate environments of orbiting planets and induces atmospheric loss thereby impacting their habitability. We perform a detailed parameter space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Sakshi Gupta , Arnab Basak , Dibyendu Nandy

We present results from the first hydrodynamical star formation calculation to demonstrate that close binary stellar systems (separations $\lsim 10$ AU) need not be formed directly by fragmentation. Instead, a high frequency of close…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew R. Bate , Ian A. Bonnell , Volker Bromm

Context. We present an analysis of our high-resolution relativistic-hydrodynamics model of the stellar- and pulsar-wind interaction in the LS-5039 system. Aims. With our high-resolution simulation covering three orbital periods, we analyse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Ralf Kissmann , David Huber , Philipp Gschwandtner

During the post-main sequence phase of stellar evolution the orbital distance of the habitable zone, which allows for liquid surface water on terrestrial planets, moves out past the system's original frost line, providing an opportunity for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-25 Thea Kozakis , Lisa Kaltenegger

Contact binary stars have been known to have a peculiar and somewhat mysterious hydro- and thermodynamical structure since their discovery, which directly affects the radiation distribution in their atmospheres. Over the past several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Angela Kochoska , Andrej Prša , Tomaž Zwitter , Martin Horvat , Kyle E. Conroy

A physically realistic stellar wind model based on Alfv\'en wave dissipation has been used to simulate the wind from Barnard's Star and to estimate the conditions at the location of its recently discovered planetary companion. Such models…

Planets have been observed in tight binary systems with separations less than 20 AU. A likely formation scenario for such systems involves a dynamical capture, after which high relative inclinations are likely and may lead to Kozai…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lamya Saleh , Frederic Rasio