On the Evolutionary History of EHB Objects in Binary Systems with Hot Subdwarf Companions

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It has been shown quite recently (Morales-Rueda et 2003) that dB stars, extreme horisontal branch (EHB) objects in high probability all belong tobinary systems. We study in detail the mass and angular momentum loss from the giant progenitors of sdB stars in an attempt to clarify why binarity must be a crucial factor in producing EHB objects. Assuming that the progenitors of EHB objects belong to the binaries with initial separations of a roughly a hundred solar radii and fill in their critical Roche lobes when being close to the tip of red giant branch we have found that considerable shrinkage of the orbit can be achieved due to a combined effect of angular momentum loss from the red giant and appreciable accretion on its low mass companion on the hydro dynamical time scale of the donor resulting in formation of helium WD with masses roughly equal to a half solar mass and thus evading the common envelope stage.

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