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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

Caption: Figure 9.

Two-dimensional contour plot of ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}({C}_{{\rm{a}}}/{C}_{{\rm{d}}})﹩ in the ﹩{q}_{{\rm{r}}}-{{ \mathcal M }}_{\infty }﹩ space using numerical results from the γ = 4/3 simulations presented in this paper. The top panel shows the ﹩({q}_{{\rm{r}}},{{ \mathcal M }}_{\infty })\to ({C}_{{\rm{a}}},{C}_{{\rm{d}}})﹩ mapping for the sink size used in the simulations Rs/Ra = 0.05. The bottom panel shows the ﹩({q}_{{\rm{r}}},{{ \mathcal M }}_{\infty })\to ({C}_{{\rm{a}}},{C}_{{\rm{d}}})﹩ mapping with the coefficients extrapolated to a sink size Rs/Ra = 10−5, which is more realistic for a black hole embedded in a common envelope.

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