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I study some aspects of common envelope evolution, where a compact star enters the envelope of a giant star. I show that in some binary systems under a narrow range of parameters, a substantial fraction of the giant stellar envelope is lost…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noam Soker

The discovery via gravitational waves of binary black hole systems with total masses greater than $60M_\odot$ has raised interesting questions for stellar evolution theory. Among the most promising formation channels for these systems is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Paul M. Ricker , Frank X. Timmes , Ronald E. Taam , Ronald F. Webbink

We present results from three-dimensional general relativistic simulations of binary neutron star coalescences and mergers using public codes. We considered equal mass models where the baryon mass of the two Neutron Stars (NS) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-09 Francesco Maione , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Frank Löffler

At least one, but more likely two or more, eccentric neutron-star, carbon-oxygen white-dwarf binaries with an unrecycled pulsar have been observed. According to the standard scenario for evolving neutron stars which are recycled in common…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. E. Brown , C. -H. Lee , S. F. Portegies Zwart , H. A. Bethe

We perform long-term general relativistic neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations (in axisymmetry) for a massive neutron star (MNS) surrounded by a torus, which is a canonical remnant formed after the binary neutron star merger. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Nobuya Nishimura , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Neutron stars (NS) that are born in binary systems with a main-sequence star companion can experience mass transfer, resulting in the accumulation of material at the surface of the NS. This, in turn, leads to the continuous growth of the NS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Noshad Khosravi Largani , Tobias Fischer , Shota Shibagaki , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Alejandro Torres-Forné

The dynamical evolution of triple stellar systems could induce the formation of compact binaries and binary mergers. Common envelope (CE) evolution, which plays a major role in the evolution of compact binary systems, can similarly play a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-27 Hila Glanz , Hagai B. Perets

Information about the last stages of a binary neutron star inspiral and the final merger can be extracted from quasi-equilibrium configurations and dynamical evolutions. In this article, we construct quasi-equilibrium configurations for…

Stellar mergers and common-envelope evolution are fast (dynamical-timescale) interactions in binary stars that drastically alter their evolution. They are key to understanding a plethora of astrophysical phenomena. Stellar mergers are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Fabian R. N. Schneider , Mike Y. M. Lau , Friedrich K. Roepke

We have calculated evolution of neutron star binaries towards the coalescence driven by gravitational radiation. The hydrodynamical effects as well as the general relativistic effects are important in the final phase. All corrections up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Ogawaguchi , Y. Kojima

A stellar common envelope occurs in a binary system when the atmosphere of an evolving star expands to encompass an orbiting companion object. Such systems are predicted to evolve rapidly, ejecting the stellar envelope and leaving the…

We use the rapid binary stellar evolution code BINARY_C to estimate the rate of merging neutron stars with numerous combinations of envelope ejection efficiency and natal kick dispersion. We find a peak in the local rate of merging neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-28 Alexander M. Tanaka , Avishai Gilkis , Robert G. Izzard , Christopher A. Tout

We present 2D hydrodynamical simulations of the transition of a proto-planetary nebula to a planetary nebula for central stars in binary systems that have undergone a common envelope event. After 1,000 yr of magnetically driven dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Guillermo García-Segura , Ronald E. Taam , Paul M. Ricker

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

We conduct a long-timescale ($5000\,$d) 3-D simulation of a common-envelope event with a $2\,M_{\odot}$ red giant and a $1\,M_{\odot}$ main sequence companion, using the moving-mesh hydrodynamic solver MANGA. Starting with an orbital radius…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Vinaya Valsan , Sarah V. Borges , Logan Prust , Philip Chang

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

Triple stellar systems allow us to study stellar processes that cannot be attained in binary stars. The evolutionary phases in which the stellar members undergo mass exchanges can alter the hierarchical layout of these systems. Yet, the…

We investigate the evolution of interacting binaries where the donor star is a low-mass giant more massive than its companion. It is usual to assume that such systems undergo common-envelope (CE) evolution, where the orbital energy is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin E. Beer , Lynnette M. Dray , Andrew R. King , Graham A. Wynn

Common-envelope evolution is a stage in binary system evolution in which a giant star engulfs a companion. The standard energy formalism is an analytical framework to estimate the amount of energy transferred from the companion's shrinking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Ricardo Yarza , Rosa Wallace Everson , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

After the companion dynamically plunges through the primary's envelope, the two cores remain surrounded by a common envelope and the decrease of the orbital period $P_\text{orb}$ stalls. The subsequent evolution has never been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Damien Gagnier , Ondřej Pejcha