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Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients associated with the partial ejection of a binary system's common envelope (CE) shortly before its merger. Here we present the results of our photometric and spectroscopic follow-up…

Luminous red novae (LRNe) and their connection to common envelope evolution (CEE) remain elusive in astrophysics. Here, we present a radiation hydrodynamic model capable of simulating the light curves of material ejected during a CEE. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhuo Chen , Natalia Ivanova

I review the roles of jet-inflated bubbles in determining the evolution of different astrophysical objects. I discuss astrophysical systems where jets are known to inflate bubbles (cooling flow [CF] clusters; young galaxies; intermediate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Noam Soker

We study recent Intermediate Luminosity Optical Transients (ILOTs) and major eruptions of Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs), and strengthen claims for a similar mechanism powering both. This process is a short duration release of gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 Amit Kashi , Noam Soker

We simulate the evolution of eccentric binary systems in the frame of the grazing envelope evolution (GEE) channel for the formation of Type IIb supernovae (SNe IIb), and find that extra mass removal by jets increases the parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Dmitry Shishkin , Noam Soker

We present results from a five-month-long observing campaign of the unusual transient AT 2022fnm, which displays properties common to both luminous red novae (LRNe) and intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs). Although its…

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) radiate $\gtrsim 10-100$ times more energy than ordinary stellar explosions, implicating a novel power source behind these enigmatic events. One frequently discussed source, particularly for hydrogen-poor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Ore Gottlieb , Brian D. Metzger

I propose a scenario that allows white dwarfs (WDs) to launch relatively powerful jets when they enter a common envelope evolution (CEE) or experience a grazing envelope evolution (GEE) with a red giant branch star (RGB) or an asymptotic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Noam Soker

Red novae are transients powered by collisions of non-compact stars. Among their progenitors are systems of evolved subgiants and giants stars. Remnants of such red novae display bipolar structures which have remarkably close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomek Kaminski

We simulate the evolution of binary systems with a massive primary star of 15Mo where we introduce an enhanced mass loss due to jets that the secondary star might launch, and find that in many cases the enhanced mass loss brings the binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Binyamin Naiman , Efrat Sabach , Avishai Gilkis , Noam Soker

I show that a flow structure where wide jets hit a slower expanding shell might be very efficient in channelling the kinetic energy of the jets to radiation, therefore accounting for, at a least a fraction of, intermediate luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Noam Soker

We explore the observational characteristics of jet-driven supernovae by simulating bipolar-jet-driven explosions in a red supergiant progenitor. We present results of four models in which we hold the injected kinetic energy at a constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sean M. Couch , J. Craig Wheeler , Milos Milosavljevic

We conduct a three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of a common envelope evolution (CEE) where a neutron star (NS) spirals-in inside the envelope of a red supergiant (RSG) star in a predetermined orbit. We find that the jets shed pairs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Shlomi Hillel , Ron Schreier , Noam Soker

I review studies of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and similar transient events that attribute major roles to jets in powering most CCSNe and in shaping their ejecta. I start with reviewing the jittering jets explosion mechanism that I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Noam Soker

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

Aims: AT 2018hso is a new transient showing transitional properties between those of LRNe and the class of intermediate luminosity red transients (ILRTs) similar to SN 2008S. Through the detailed analysis of the observed parameters, our…

We present optical and near-infrared broadband photometry and optical spectra of AT 2014ej from the the Carnegie Supernova Project-II. These observations are complemented with data from the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch, the Public ESO…

In relation to two meetings on stellar binary systems in July 2017, I summarize my view that in the majority of strongly interacting stellar binary systems jets play decisive roles. In the meeting The Physics of Evolved Stars II: The role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Noam Soker

Luminous red novae (LRN) are a class of optical transients believed to originate from the mergers of binary stars, or "common envelope" events. Their light curves often show secondary maxima, which cannot be explained in the previous models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Brian D. Metzger , Ondrej Pejcha

We suggest and study the formation of intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs) from the merger of two cool giant stars. For the two stars to merge when both are in their giant phases the stars must have close masses at their zero…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Ran Segev , Efrat Sabach , Noam Soker