Wind-driven angular momentum loss in binary systems. I - Ballistic case

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Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...410..719b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 410, no. 2, p. 719-731.

Statistics

Computation

17

Accretion Disks, Angular Momentum, Binary Stars, Computational Astrophysics, Stellar Winds, Ballistics, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Models

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We study numerically the average loss of specific angular momentum from binary systems due to mass outflow from one of the two stars for a variety of initial injection geometries and wind velocities. We present results of ballistic calculations in three dimensions for initial mass ratios q of the mass-losing star to primary star in the range q between 10 exp -5 and 10. We consider injection surfaces close to the Roche lobe equipotential surface of the mass-losing star, and also cases with the mass-losing star underfilling its Roche lobe. We obtain that the orbital period is expected to have a negative time derivative for wind-driven secular evolution of binaries with q greater than about 3 and with the mass-losing star near filling its Roche lobe. We also study the effect of the presence of an absorbing surface approximating an accretion disk on the average final value of the specific angular momentum loss. We find that the effect of an accretion disk is to increase the wind-driven angular momentum loss. Our results are relevant for evolutionary models of high-mass binaries and low-mass X-ray binaries.

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