ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Explaining Common Envelope Evolution and Dynamics in binary stellar systems
A thorough understanding of stellar evolution is key to nearly any branch of astrophysics. The majority of stars evolves in binary or multiple systems and interactions often occur between their components. Such dynamical interaction phases are pivotal for the fate of the system and its constituents, but they elude classical stellar modeling. Common-envelope phases, in which a compact companion spirals into the envelope of a giant primary star, are the glaring gaps in our knowledge and pose one of the last unsolved fundamental problems to stellar astrophysics. The ExCEED project breaks new ground by developing a strategy to reach a comprehensive understanding of common-envelope evolution. It…
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