Episodic mass ejections from common-envelope objects
After the initial fast spiral-in phase experienced by a common-envelope binary, the system mayenter a slow, self-regulated phase, possibly lasting hundreds of years, in which all the energy released by orbital decay can be efficiently transported to the surface, where it is radiated away.If the rema...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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