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The parameter space favourable for the resonant excitation of free oscillation modes by dynamic tides in close binary components is explored using qualitative considerations to estimate the order of magnitude of the tidal force and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Willems

This investigation is devoted to the effects of nonadiabatic resonant dynamic tides generated in a uniformly rotating stellar component of a close binary. The companion is considered to move in a fixed Keplerian orbit, and the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Willems , T. Van Hoolst , P. Smeyers

In this talk, we review some recent advances in the theory of dynamic tides in close binaries. We particularly focus on the effects of resonances of dynamic tides with free oscillation modes and on the role of dynamic tides in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Willems , A. Claret

The basic theory of dynamic tides in close binaries is reviewed. Particular attention is paid to resonances between dynamic tides and free oscillation modes and to the role of the apsidal-motion rate in probing the internal structure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Willems

We calculate the dynamical tides raised on a non-rotating solar-type star by a close stellar or planetary companion. Dissipation arising from a turbulent viscosity operating in the convection zone and radiative damping in the radiative core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Terquem , J. C. B. Papaloizou , R. P. Nelson , D. N. C. Lin

We study the effect of rotation on the excitation of internal oscillation modes of a star by the external gravitational potential of its companion. Unlike the nonrotating case, there are difficulties with the usual mode decomposition for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dong Lai

Rotation contributes to internal mixing processes and observed variability in massive stars. A significant number of binary stars are not in strict synchronous rotation, including all eccentric systems. This leads to a tidally induced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Gloria Koenigsberger , Edmundo Moreno , Norbert Langer

We examine the effect of dynamical tides raised by a companion on a solar-type star. In these binaries, gravity or g mode oscillations are excited by the companion in the radiative region beneath the convective envelope of the star. They…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Terquem , J. C. B. Papaloizou , R. P. Nelson , D. N. C. Lin

We consider the tidal excitation of modes in a binary system of arbitrary eccentricity. For a circular orbit, the modes generally undergo forced oscillation with a period equal to the orbital period ($T$). For an eccentric orbit, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pawan Kumar , Chi On Ao , Eliot J. Quataert

The validity of the classical formula for the rate of secular apsidal motion in close binaries is investigated for a sequence of models of a 5 solar mass star ranging from the last stages of the C12 -> N14 reaction to the phase where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Willems , A. Claret

Dynamical tides can provide us vital information about the properties of neutron star (NS) matter. This is particularly true for g-modes, whose frequency and tidal coupling are highly sensitive to the composition of NSs, especially in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 János Takátsy , Lorenz Zwick , Pankaj Saini , Johan Samsing

Tidal dissipation due to convective turbulent viscosity shapes the evolution of a variety of astrophysical binaries. For example, this type of dissipation determines the rate of orbital circularization in a binary with a post-main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

We study the tidal excitation of gravity modes (g-modes) in compact white dwarf binary systems with periods ranging from minutes to hours. As the orbit of the system decays via gravitational radiation, the orbital frequency increases and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-21 James Fuller , Dong Lai

We investigate the dynamical tide in a gravitational wave (GW)-driven coalescing binary involving a neutron star (NS). The NS is assumed to spin rapidly, with its spin axis anti-aligned with the orbit. Such an NS may exist if the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Hang Yu , Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

Heartbeat stars are eccentric binary stars in short period orbits whose light curves are shaped by tidal distortion, reflection, and Doppler beaming. Some heartbeat stars exhibit tidally excited oscillations and present new opportunities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Jim Fuller

Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Tidal interactions influence the orbital motions of binary star systems and extrasolar planets alike. Tides also affect stellar and planetary rotation rates. We demonstrate that in addition to altering spin synchronization and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Janosz W. Dewberry

A new class of pulsating binary stars was recently discovered, whose pulsation amplitudes are strongly modulated with orbital phase. Stars in close binaries are tidally distorted, so we examine how a star's tidally induced asphericity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 J. Fuller , D. W. Kurtz , G. Handler , S. Rappaport

We study the excitation and damping of tides in close binary systems, accounting for the leading order nonlinear corrections to linear tidal theory. These nonlinear corrections include two distinct effects: three-mode nonlinear interactions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , Eliot Quataert , Josh Burkart

In close binary stars, the tidal excitation of pulsations typically dissipates energy, causing the system to evolve towards a circular orbit with aligned and synchronized stellar spins. However, for stars with self-excited pulsations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jim Fuller
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