Modeling a post-interaction binary

Contents:

• MESA@Konkoly – Massive Binaries
  • Introduction
    • Overview of the binary work directory and inlists
      • Binary inlists
      • The src folder
      • Running a binary model
      • Restarting a Binary Model
      • pgstar
  • Minilab 1: Stable Mass Transfer Evolution
    • Producing a Stripped Star Binary
    • Customizing run_binary_extras
    • Extra – Exploring Uncertainties in the Envelope Stripping
    • Solutions
  • Minilab 2 (“Midilab”): The Efficiency of Mass Transfer
    • Calibrating the Efficiency of Mass Transfer to an Observed System
    • Varying the Mass Transfer Efficiency
      • Some Questions to Discuss While the New Models are Running
    • What Might Limit the Mass-Transfer?
      • Ad hoc Model 1: Angular Momentum and Critical Rotation
        • Ad hoc Model 1: “Painted-on” Critical Rotation:
      • Implementation
        • Checkpoint 0: Initialize a Global Variable to Store the Angular Momentum Accreted
        • Checkpoint 1: Calculate AM accreted in extras_binary_finish_step
        • Checkpoint 2: Estimate the rotation rate
        • Checkpoint 3: Calculate the critical rotation
        • Checkpoint 4: Stop if the rotation rate is faster than critical rotation
        • Run MESA binary with Ad Hoc Model 1 implemented!
      • BONUS TASK: Ad hoc model 2: Thermal Timescale-limited accretion
    • Solutions
  • Maxilab: Towards the X-ray binary stage
    • Introduction
    • Core-collapse of the primary and formation of a NS
    • Future evolution of the system: towards an X-ray binary and a common-envelope phase
      • Step 1: Set the starting conditions and set the primary star as a point mass
      • Step 2: Determining the start of the common-envelope phase
    • Estimating the outcome of CE evolution
      • Step 1: computing the envelope binding energy
      • Step 2: computing the post-CE orbital separation \(a_{\rm fin}\) required to unbind the envelope
      • Step 3: check whether the donor fits inside its Roche-lobe in the post-CE orbit
    • Solutions

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
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