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We calculate the long-term evolution of angular momentum in double white dwarf binaries undergoing direct impact accretion over a broad range of parameter space. We allow the rotation rate of both components to vary, and account for the…

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The asymptotic response of donor stars in interacting binary systems to very rapid mass loss is characterized by adiabatic expansion throughout their interiors. In this limit, energy generation and heat flow through the stellar interior can…

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Strangeon stars, which are proposed to describe the nature of pulsar-like compact stars, have passed various observational tests. The maximum mass of a non-rotating strangeon star could be high, which implies that the remnants of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Xi-Yan Yang , Xiao-Yu Lai , Wei-Wei Tan , Ren-Xin Xu

The macroscopic model is formulated for a neutron star (NS) as a perfect liquid drop at the equilibrium. We use the leptodermic approximation $a/R\ll 1$, where $a$ is the crust thickness of the effective NS surface (ES), and $R$ is the mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 A. G. Magner , S. P. Maydanyuk , A. Bonasera , H. Zheng , T. Depastas , A. I. Levon , U. V. Grygoriev

A self-consistent field method is developed, which can be used to construct models of differentially rotating stars to first post-Newtonian order. The rotation law is specified by the specific angular momentum distribution j(m), where m is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuk Tung Liu

The macroscopic model for a neutron star (NS) as a perfect liquid drop at the equilibrium is extended to rotating systems by incorporating the linear perturbation expansion over a small frequency $\omega$ near the Schwarzschild…

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We investigate the structural and asteroseismic consequences of mass accretion in massive stars within close binary systems. Using MESA, we model the evolution of the 10 M$_{\odot}$ accretor through and after a Roche lobe overflow phase. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 A. Miszuda , Z. Guo , R. H. D. Townsend

We develop a high-precision model for laser ranging interferometric (LRI) observables of the GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission. For this, we study the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in the gravitational field in the vicinity of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-29 Slava G. Turyshev , Mikhail V. Sazhin , Viktor T. Toth

We study binary mergers in bootstrapped Newtonian gravity, where higher-order couplings are added to the non-relativistic Lagrangian for the Newtonian potential. In this theory, the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass differs from both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Roberto Casadio , Iberê Kuntz , Octavian Micu

The rapid circularization and synchronization of the stellar components in an eccentric binary system at the onset of Roche lobe overflow (RLO) is a fundamental assumption common to all binary stellar evolution and population synthesis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. F. Sepinsky , B. Willems , V. Kalogera , F. A. Rasio

We run numerical simulations to study high-power wind accretion in a massive binary system during a high mass loss event. The system consists of an evolved primary star with a zero age main sequence mass of $ M_{1} = \rm 100~M_{\odot}$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Bhawna Mukhija , Amit Kashi

We study the merging of massive stars inside a common envelope for binary systems consisting of a red supergiant with a mass of 15-20 Msun and a main-sequence companion of 1-5 Msun. We are particularly interested in the stage when the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Ivanova , Ph. Podsiadlowski , H. Spruit

We use a hybrid numerical approach to simulate the formation of the Moon from an impact-generated disk, consisting of a fluid model for the disk inside the Roche limit and an N-body code to describe accretion outside the Roche limit. As the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Julien Salmon , Robin M. Canup

We develop a theoretical framework to study slowly rotating compact stars in a rather general class of alternative theories of gravity, with the ultimate goal of investigating constraints on alternative theories from electromagnetic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jocelyn Read

Within the framework of $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$ gravity, we study realistic models of neutron stars, using equations of state compatible with the LIGO constraints. i.e. APR4, MPA1, SLy, and WW1. By numerically solving modified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Pasquale Feola , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Salvatore Capozziello , Roberto Cianci , Stefano Vignolo

Using the Newtonian approximation, we study rotating compact bosonic objects. The equations which describe stationary states with non-zero angular momentum are constructed and some numerical results are presented as examples. Limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Vanda Silveira , Claudio M. G. de Sousa

The rate of gravitational-wave energy loss from inspiralling binary systems of compact objects of arbitrary mass is derived through second post-Newtonian (2PN) order $O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$ beyond the quadrupole approximation. The result has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

We examine the Lagrangian divergence of the displacement field, arguably a more natural object than the density in a Lagrangian description of cosmological large-scale structure. This quantity, which we denote \psi, quantifies the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-17 Mark C. Neyrinck

In this paper, we have reviewed the present status of the theory of equilibrium configurations of compact binary star systems in Newtonian gravity. Evolutionary processes of compact binary star systems due to gravitational wave emission can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiharu Eriguchi , Koji Uryu

We apply standard post-Newtonian methods in general relativity to locate the innermost circular orbit (ICO) of irrotational and corotational binary black-hole systems. We find that the post-Newtonian series converges well when the two…

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