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Most studies of mass transfer in binary systems assume circular orbits at the onset of Roche lobe overflow. However, there are theoretical and observational indications that mass transfer could occur in eccentric orbits. In particular,…

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Wind mass transfer in binary systems with AGB donor stars plays a fundamental role in the formation of a variety of objects, including barium stars and CEMP stars. We carry out a comprehensive set of SPH simulations of wind-losing AGB stars…

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Binaries and higher order systems can experience mass transfer events between their components. The angular momentum carried by the gained mass can change the observable parameters of the accretor and spin it up to critical rotation. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Magdalena Vilaxa-Campos , Nathan Leigh , Taeho Ryu

Among massive stars, binary interaction is the rule rather than the exception. The closest binaries, those with periods of less than about 10 days, undergo mass transfer during core-hydrogen burning, with many of them experiencing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Matthias Fabry , Pablo Marchant , Norbert Langer , Hugues Sana

The prevalence of binary stars at close separations implies that many of these systems will interact or merge during the binary's lifetime. This paper presents hydrodynamic simulations of the scenario of binary coalescence through unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Morgan MacLeod , Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , James M. Stone

Results of numerical simulations of the impact of a common envelope on the matter flow pattern near the outflowing component in a semidetached binary system are presented. Three-dimensional modeling of the matter transfer gas dynamics in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Bisikalo , A. A. Boyarchuk , O. A. Kuznetsov , V. M. Chechetkin

We present a numerical method for the study of double white dwarf (DWD) binary systems at the onset of super-Eddington mass transfer. We incorporate the physics of ideal inviscid hydrodynamical flow, Newtonian self-gravity, and radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-25 Dominic C. Marcello , Joel E. Tohline

The unstable mass transfer situation in binary systems will asymptotically cause the adiabatic expansion of the donor star and finally lead to the common envelope phase. This process could happen in helium binary systems once the helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Lifu Zhang , Hongwei Ge , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

We use a variety of visualization techniques to display the interior and surface flows in a double white dwarf binary undergoing direct-impact mass transfer and evolving dynamically to a merger. The structure of the flow can be interpreted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Juhan Frank , Alexander Straub , Sagiv Shiber , Parsa Amini , Dominic C. Marcello , Patrick Diehl , Thomas Ertl , Filip Sadlo , Steffen Frey

The stability criteria of rapid mass transfer and common envelope evolution are fundamental in binary star evolution. They determine the mass, mass ratio and orbital distribution of many important systems, such as X-ray binaries, Type Ia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Hongwei Ge , Christopher A. Tout , Xuefei Chen , Arnab Sarkar , Dominic J. Walton , Zhanwen Han

Aims: We have developed a new code for the three-dimensional time-dependent raditation hydrodynamic simulation of the stellar wind in interacting binaries to improve models of accretion in high-mass X-ray binaries and to quantitatively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Jan Čechura , Petr Hadrava

Despite numerous efforts to better understand binary star evolution, some aspects of it remain poorly constrained. In particular, the evolution of eccentric binaries has remained elusive mainly because the Roche lobe formalism derived for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Charles-Philippe Lajoie , Alison Sills

We use Direct Numerical Simulations to study the two-dimensional flow of a rotating, half soap bubble that is heated at its equator. The heating produces buoyancy and rotation generates a Coriolis forces in the fluid. However, due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 X. Q. HE , A. D. Bragg , Y. L. Xiong , P. Fischer

We present the first self-consistent, three dimensional study of hydrodynamic simulations of mass transfer in binary systems with bipolytropic (composite polytropic) components. In certain systems, such as contact binaries or during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Kundan Kadam , Patrick M. Motl , Dominic C. Marcello , Juhan Frank , Geoffrey C. Clayton

We investigate the secular evolution of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity due to mass transfer in eccentric binaries, allowing for both mass and angular momentum loss from the system. Adopting a delta function mass transfer rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 J. F. Sepinsky , B. Willems , V. Kalogera , F. A. Rasio

The origin of chemically peculiar stars and non-zero eccentricity in evolved close binaries have been long-standing problems in binary stellar evolution. Answers to these questions may trace back to an intense mass transfer during AGB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zhuo Chen , Natalia Ivanova , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback

We discuss some aspects of stellar evolution in binary systems. While single stars can swell following the chemical evolution of their interior, stars belonging to binary systems cannot overflow the size of the Roche lobe and hydrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 O. G. Benvenuto , M. A. De Vito , L. Bartolomeo Koninckx , M. Echeveste , M. L. Novarino , J. E. Horvath

We present the results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of mass transfer in semi-detached binary systems in which the mass-losing star is rotating. The cases of aligned and misaligned non-synchronous rotation of the donor star are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Bisikalo , A. A. Boyarchuk , O. A. Kuznetsov , V. M. Chechetkin

Mass transfer stability is an essential issue in binary evolution. Ge et al. studied critical mass ratios for dynamically stable mass transfer by establishing adiabatic mass loss model and found that the donor stars on the giant branches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Zhenwei LI , Xuefei Chen , Hongwei Ge , Hai-Liang Chen , Zhanwen Han

A self-consistent model for binary evolution devised by Gingold \& Monaghan (1980) is used to show that two distinctly different types of behaviour are possible for close eccentric binaries. The model is based on a linear adiabatic normal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rosemary A. Mardling