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How Common Envelope Interactions Change the Lives of Stars and Planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2012

O. De Marco ,
J.-C. Passy ,
F. Herwig ,
C. L. Fryer ,
M.-M. Mac Low  and
J. S. Oishi
O. De Marco
Affiliation:
Macquarie University Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics & Astrophotonics Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia email: [email protected]
J.-C. Passy
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Astrophysics Department, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
F. Herwig
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
C. L. Fryer
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
M.-M. Mac Low
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
J. S. Oishi
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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The common envelope interaction between a giant star and a stellar or substellar companion is at the origin of several compact binary classes, including the progenitors of Type Ia SN. A common envelope is also what will happen when the Sun expands and swallows its planets as far out as Jupiter. The basic idea and physics of the common envelope interaction has been known since the 1970s. However, the outcome of a common envelope interaction - what systems survive and what their parameters are - depends sensitively on the details of the engagement. To advance our knowledge of the common envelope interaction between stars and their stellar and substellar companions, we have carried out a series of simulations with Eulerian, grid-based and Lagrangian, smoothed particle hydrodynamics codes between a 0.88-M⊙, 85-R⊙, red giant branch star and companions in the mass range 0.1-0.9 M⊙. In this contribution, we will discuss the reliability of the techniques, the physics that is not included in the codes but is likely important, the state of the ejected common envelope, and the final binary separation. We also carry out a comparison with the observations. Finally, we discuss the common envelope efficiency parameter, α and the survival of planets.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools , July 2011 , pp. 517 - 520
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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