Binary stellar mergers with marginally bound ejecta: excretion discs, inflated envelopes, outflows, and their luminous transients

Super-Eddington stellar winds driven by near-surface energy deposition

(2016) Eliot Quataert et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The dynamics of radiation-driven, optically thick winds

(2016) Rong-Feng Shen et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive star mergers and the recent transient in NGC 4490: a more massive cousin of V838 Mon and V1309 Sco

(2016) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two stars in the 40–100 solar mass range

(2016) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   NATURE

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Operation of the jet feedback mechanism (JFM) in intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs)

(2016) Amit Kashi et al.   Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The January 2015 outburst of a red nova in M 31

(2015) A. A. Kurtenkov et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Forming equatorial rings around dying stars

(2015) Muhammad Akashi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Cool and luminous transients from mass-losing binary stars

(2015) Ondřej Pejcha et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Mass transfer from giant donors

(2015) K. Pavlovskii et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The January 2015 outburst of a red nova in M 31

(2015) A. A. Kurtenkov et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

BURYING A BINARY: DYNAMICAL MASS LOSS AND A CONTINUOUS OPTICALLY THICK OUTFLOW EXPLAIN THE CANDIDATE STELLAR MERGER V1309 SCORPII

(2014) Ondřej Pejcha   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

V1309 Sco—UNDERSTANDING A MERGER

(2014) J. L. A. Nandez et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

An efficient radiative cooling approximation for use in hydrodynamic simulations

(2014) James C. Lombardi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Stellar mergers are common

(2014) C. S. Kochanek et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

OGLE-2002-BLG-360: from a gravitational microlensing candidate to an overlooked red transient

(2013) R. Tylenda et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF CIRCUMBINARY DISKS AROUND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES

(2013) Roman R. Rafikov   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Greatly enhanced eccentricity oscillations in quadruple systems composed of two binaries: implications for stars, planets and transients

(2013) Ondřej Pejcha et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events

(2013) N. Ivanova et al.   SCIENCE

THE RESPONSE OF GIANT STARS TO DYNAMICAL-TIMESCALE MASS LOSS

(2012) Jean-Claude Passy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RADIATION MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF PROTOSTELLAR COLLAPSE: PROTOSTELLAR CORE FORMATION

(2012) Kengo Tomida et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Optical and X-ray transients from planet-star mergers

(2012) B. D. Metzger et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

V1309 Scorpii: merger of a contact binary

(2011) R. Tylenda et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Observational manifestations of the common envelope in a close binary

(2011) A. Yu. Sytov et al.   ASTRONOMY REPORTS

ACCELERATING COMPACT OBJECT MERGERS IN TRIPLE SYSTEMS WITH THE KOZAI RESONANCE: A MECHANISM FOR “PROMPT” TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE, GAMMA-RAY BURSTS, AND OTHER EXOTICA

(2011) Todd A. Thompson   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

TWIN BINARIES: STUDIES OF STABILITY, MASS TRANSFER, AND COALESCENCE

(2011) J. C. Lombardi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The peculiar nova V1309 Scorpii/nova Scorpii 2008

(2010) E. Mason et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ADIABATIC MASS LOSS IN BINARY STARS. I. COMPUTATIONAL METHOD

(2010) Hongwei Ge et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Introducing a hybrid radiative transfer method for smoothed particle hydrodynamics

(2009) Duncan Forgan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY