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The Tale of a Hungry Subgiant and Its Brown Dwarf: Interior Radiative Damping Dominates the Tidal Evolution of TOI-5882

  • Authors: Ritvik Sai Narayan, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Richard H. D. Townsend

Ritvik Sai Narayan et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Propagation diagram for the primary TOI-5882 during its early RGB evolution. The green and blue solid curves show the radial profiles of the squared Brunt–Väisälä frequency and the  = 2 Lamb frequency, respectively. The dark shaded region denotes the evanescent region, which separates the outer acoustic (p-mode) cavity from the deep interior gravity (g-mode) cavity. The hatched region represents the convective region of the star while the orange shaded region denotes the radial location of the hydrogen-burning shell. Lastly, the horizontal dotted line marks the present-day tidal forcing frequency induced by the BD companion.

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