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Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: The Effects of Binary Mass Ratio and Implications for the Accretion-driven Growth of LIGO Binary Black Holes

  • Authors: Soumi De, Morgan MacLeod, Rosa Wallace Everson, Andrea Antoni, Ilya Mandel, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 897 130.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Points in the ﹩{{ \mathcal M }}_{\infty }﹩–ϵρ space representing flow parameters for simulations performed with the “wind tunnel” setup. For polytropic envelopes, each combination of ﹩{{ \mathcal M }}_{\infty }﹩ and ϵρ has a corresponding qr value (MacLeod et al. 2017). Simulations are shown on lines of constant qr, with the exception of three simulations from MacLeod & Ramirez-Ruiz (2015a) that do not follow the polytropic relation. The simulations in this work expand on the previous work as labeled, extending across both axes to higher Mach numbers and steeper density gradients, significantly extending coverage across the region of parameter space realized in realistic stellar profiles as detailed in Everson et al. (2020).

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