Finding the unusual red giant remnants of cataclysmic variable mergers

Mergers between helium white dwarfs and main-sequence stars are likely common, producing red giant-like remnants making up roughly a few percent of all low-mass ($\lesssim2M_\odot$) red giants. Through detailed modeling, we show that these merger remnants possess distinctive photometric, asteroseism...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Z. Rui, Jim Fuller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maynooth Academic Publishing 2024-09-01
Series:The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.123878