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We study transients produced by equatorial disk-like outflows from catastrophically mass-losing binary stars with an asymptotic velocity and energy deposition rate near the inner edge which are proportional to the binary escape velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Ondrej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Kengo Tomida

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

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

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 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

In some semi-detached binary systems, the donor star may transfer mass to the companion at a very high rate. We propose that, at sufficiently high mass-transfer rates such that the accretion disk around the companion becomes geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Wenbin Lu , Jim Fuller , Eliot Quataert , Clément Bonnerot

We present fully general-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with a temperature and composition dependent nuclear equation of state. We study the dynamical mass ejection from both quasi-circular and dynamical-capture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 David Radice , Filippo Galeazzi , Jonas Lippuner , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott , Luciano Rezzolla

We investigate the mass loss from a rotationally distorted envelope following the early, rapid in-spiral of a companion star inside a common envelope. For initially wide, massive binaries (M_1+M_2=20M_{\odot}, P\sim 10 yr), the primary has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Morris , Ph. Podsiadlowski

Some binary stars experience common envelope evolution, which is accompanied by drastic loss of angular momentum, mass, and orbital energy and which leaves behind close binaries often involving at least one white dwarf, neutron star, or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-26 Ondřej Pejcha

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

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

Compact binary mergers involving at least one neutron star are promising sites for the synthesis of $\textit{r}$-process elements found in stars and planets. However, mergers can take place at significant offsets from their host galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Benjamin Amend , Jonathan Zrake , Dieter H. Hartmann

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We find that a few $10^{-3}\, M_\odot$ of material are ejected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 David Radice , Albino Perego , Kenta Hotokezaka , Steven A. Fromm , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Luke F. Roberts

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

Binary evolution is indispensable in stellar evolution to understand the formation and evolution of most peculiar and energetic objects, such as binary compact objects, Type Ia supernovae, X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, blue…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Hongwei Ge , Ronald F Webbink , Zhanwen Han

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

While there are a number of proposed formation channels for subsolar mass compact objects, including black holes formed primordially, or neutron stars that form in collapsar disks, there have yet to be any conclusive observations of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Maxence Corman , William E. East , Jocelyn S. Read

Detectable electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves from compact binary mergers can be produced by outflows from the black hole-accretion disk remnant during the first ten seconds after the merger. Two-dimensional axisymmetric…

Massive stars in the red supergiant (RSG) phase are known to undergo strong mass loss through winds and observations indicate that a substantial part of this mass loss could be driven by localised and episodic outflows. Various mechanisms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Camille Landri , Ondřej Pejcha

We consider stable mass transfer from the secondary to the primary of an extreme mass ratio binary system. We show that when the mass transfer is sufficiently fast, mass leakage occurs through the outer Lagrange point L2, in addition to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-04 Itai Linial , Re'em Sari
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