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We study mass loss from the outer Lagrange point (L2) in binary stellar mergers and their luminous transients by means of radiative hydrodynamical simulations. Previously, we showed that for binary mass ratios 0.06 < q < 0.8, synchronous L2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ondrej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Kengo Tomida

High rates of stable mass transfer (MT) occur for some binary star systems, resulting in luminous transients and circumbinary outflows (CBOs). We perform hydrodynamical simulations of a $10 \ M_\odot$ donor star and a $5\ M_\odot$ point…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Peter Scherbak , Wenbin Lu , Jim Fuller

High rates of stable mass transfer likely occur for some binary star systems, but the resulting flow of mass and angular momentum (AM) is unclear. We perform hydrodynamical simulations of a polytropic donor star and a point mass secondary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Peter Scherbak , Wenbin Lu , Jim Fuller

We propose a new type of electromagnetic transients associated with the birth of binary black holes (BBHs), which may lead to merger events accompanied by gravitational waves in $\sim0.1-1$ Gyr. We consider the newborn BBHs formed through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

We perform numerical simulations to investigate the stellar wind from interacting binary stars. Our aim is to find analytical formulae describing the outflow structure. In each binary system the more massive star is in the asymptotic giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante , G. García-Segura , W. Steffen , L. Sabin

We examine optical V-band light curves in luminous eclipsing black hole X-ray binaries, using a supercritical accretion/outflow model that is more realistic than the formerly used ones. In order to compute the theoretical light curve in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Ken-ya Watarai , Jun Fukue

Several active galaxies show strong evidence for fast ($v_{\rm out} \sim 1000~{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$) massive ($\dot{M} =$ several $\times 1000~\msun\,{\rm yr}^{-1}$) gas outflows. Such outflows are expected on theoretical grounds once the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew King

The outflow of an object traveling in a fluid can shape the fluid morphology by forming a forward bow shock which accelerates the object via gravitational feedback. This dynamical effect, namely "dynamical anti-friction", has been studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Lile Wang , Xinyu Li

We investigate kinematics of mass loss from the vicinity of the second Lagrange point L2 with applications to merging binary stars, common envelope evolution and the associated transient brightenings. For ballistic particle trajectories, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Dominika Hubova , Ondrej Pejcha

Recent observations have revealed that the remnants of stellar-coalescence transients are bipolar. This raises the questions of how these bipolar morphologies arise and what they teach us about the mechanisms of mass ejection during stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Morgan MacLeod , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

All disc-accreting astrophysical objects produce powerful outflows. In binaries containing neutron stars (NS) or black holes, accretion often takes place during violent outbursts. The main disc wind signatures during these eruptions are…

Numerical-relativity simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed for a variety of equations of state (EOSs) and for a plausible range of the neutron-star mass, focusing primarily on the properties of the material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Luminous red nova transients, presumably from stellar coalescence, exhibit long-term precursor emission over hundreds of binary orbits, leading to impulsive outbursts with durations similar to a single orbital period. In an effort to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Morgan MacLeod , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

Binary stars commonly pass through phases of direct interaction which result in the rapid loss of mass, energy, and angular momentum. Though crucial to understanding the fates of these systems, including their potential as gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Ondrej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Jacob G. Tyles , Kengo Tomida

Intermediate mass protostarsprovide a bridge between theories of low- and high-mass star formation. Emerging molecular outflows can be used to determine the influence of fragmentation and multiplicity on protostellar evolution through the…

Outflows launched from a remnant disc of compact binary merger may have essential contribution to the kilonova emission. Numerical calculations are conducted in this work to study the structure of accretion flows and outflows. By the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Tuan Yi , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Rajiv Kumar , Hui-Jun Mu , Cui-Ying Song

We analyze velocity profiles of the X-ray spectral lines emitted by the Eta Carinae stellar binary at four epochs, just before the X-ray minimum (associated with periastron) and more than two years before the minimum (~apastron). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ehud Behar , Raanan Nordon , Noam Soker

Several dozen binary ultracool and brown dwarf systems have been identified to date. These systems represent valuable probes of star and planet formation at the lowest mass scales. To date, the study of these ultracool binaries has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Samuel Whitebook , Jim Fuller , Kevin Burdge , Thomas R. Marsh , Dimitri Mawet , Thomas Prince

Many black hole X-ray transients are in a low state for several decades until an outburst occurs. We interpret this outburst behaviour as a marginal occurrence of a dwarf nova type disk instability in the cool outer accretion disk. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Meyer-Hofmeister , F. Meyer

In this work, the gas infall and the formation of outflows around low and high mass protostars are investigated. A radial self-similar approach to model the transit of the molecular gas around the central object is employed. We include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Combet , T. Lery , G. C. Murphy
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