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Three-dimensional Hydrodynamical Simulations of Mass Transfer in Binary Systems by a Free Wind

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 846, Issue 2, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8622

Keywords

binaries: general; methods: numerical; stars: winds, outflows

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  1. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  2. Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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A large fraction of stars in binary systems are expected to undergo mass and angular momentum exchange at some point in their evolution, which can drastically alter the chemical and dynamical properties and fates of the systems. Interaction by stellar wind is an important process in wide binaries. However, the details of wind mass transfer are still not well understood. We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of wind mass transfer in binary systems to explore mass-accretion efficiencies and geometries of mass outflows, for a range of mass ratios from 0.05 to 1.0. In particular, we focus on the case of a free wind, in which some physical mechanism accelerates the expelled wind material balancing the gravity of the mass-losing star with the wind velocity comparable to the orbital velocity of the system. We find that the mass-accretion efficiency and accreted specific angular momentum increase with the mass ratio of the system. For an adiabatic wind, we obtain that the accretion efficiency onto the secondary star varies from about 0.1% to 8% for mass ratios between 0.05 and 1.0.

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