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Because the majority of massive stars are born as members of close binary systems, populations of massive main-sequence stars contain stellar mergers and products of binary mass transfer. We simulate populations of massive stars accounting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. E. de Mink , H. Sana , N. Langer , R. G. Izzard , F. R. N. Schneider

Two blue-straggler sequences discovered in globular cluster M30 provide a strong constraint on the formation mechanisms of blue stragglers. We study the formation of the blue-straggler binaries through binary evolution, and find that binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Dengkai Jiang , Xuefei Chen , Lifang Li , Zhanwen Han

Stellar winds shape the evolution of stars through the loss of mass. In binary systems, they also shape the stars' evolution by modifying the orbit. In this paper, we use hydrodynamic simulations to study the emergence of nearly-isothermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Morgan MacLeod , Abraham Loeb

One of the principal mechanisms that is responsible for the origin of blue stragglers is mass transfer that takes place while one of the binary companions overfills its Roche lobe. In this Chapter, we overview the theoretical understanding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Natalia Ivanova

Evolutionary calculations for stars in close binary systems are in high demand to obtain better constraints on gravitational wave source progenitors, understand transient events from stellar interactions, and more. Modern one-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ali Pourmand , Natalia Ivanova

Understanding the galaxy in which we live is one of the great intellectual challenges facing modern science. With the advent of high quality observational data, the chemical evolution modeling of our galaxy has been the subject of numerous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erwin De Donder , Dany Vanbeveren

Binary neutron stars have been observed as millisecond pulsars, gravitational-wave sources, and as the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae. Massive stellar binaries that evolve into merging double neutron stars are believed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Alejandro Vigna-Gómez , Michelle Wassink , Jakub Klencki , Alina Istrate , Gijs Nelemans , Ilya Mandel

Be stars are rapidly rotating B type stars. The origin of their rapid rotation is not certain, but binary interaction remains to be a possibility. In this work we investigate the formation of Be stars resulting from mass transfer in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

The vast majority of massive binary systems in the universe is evidently unsuited to produce merging binary black holes. However, several narrow evolutionary paths of isolated massive binaries towards this goal have recently been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiao-Tian Xu , Norbert Langer , Jakub Klencki , Chen Wang , Xiang-Dong Li

The evolution of a binary star system by various analytic approximations of mass transfer is discussed, with particular attention payed to the stability of these processes against runaway on the thermal and dynamical timescales of the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 G. E. Soberman , E. S. Phinney , E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Blue stragglers are anomalously massive core hydrogen-burning stars that, according to the theory of single star evolution, should not exist. They are suspected to form in mass-enhancement processes, involving binary evolution or stellar…

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

Nearby companions alter the evolution of massive stars in binary systems. Using a sample of Galactic massive stars in nearby young clusters, we simultaneously measure all intrinsic binary characteristics relevant to quantify the frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 H. Sana , S. E. de Mink , A. de Koter , N. Langer , C. J. Evans , M. Gieles , E. Gosset , R. G. Izzard , J. -B. Le Bouquin , F. R. N. Schneider

We calculate the evolution of close binary systems (CBSs) formed by a neutron star (behaving as a radio pulsar) and a normal donor star, evolving either to helium white dwarf (HeWD) or ultra short orbital period systems. We consider X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. G. Benvenuto , M. A. De Vito , J. E. Horvath

The evolution of neutron stars in close binary systems with a low-mass companion is considered assuming the magnetic field to be confined within the solid crust. We adopt the standard scenario of the evolution in a close binary system in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Urpin , U. Geppert , D. Konenkov

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan

Context. Blue Stragglers Stars (BSSs) are thought to form in globular clusters by two main formation channels: i) mergers induced by stellar collisions and ii) coalescence or mass-transfer between companions in binary systems. The detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sollima , B. Lanzoni , G. Beccari , F. R. Ferraro , F. Fusi Pecci

In our current interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the universe it is well established that galaxies collide and merge with each other during their lifetime. If massive black holes (MBHs) reside in galactic centres, we expect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Patrick Brem , Jorge Cuadra

The evolution of a star of initial mass 9 M_s, and Z = 0.02 in a Close Binary System is followed in the presence of different mass companions in order to study their influence on the final evolutionary stages and, in particular, on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pilar Gil-Pons , Enrique Garcia-Berro

Galactic nuclei are often found to contain young stellar populations and, in most cases, a central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Most known massive stars are found in binaries or higher-multiplicity systems, and in a galactic nucleus the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini