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Stable Mass Transfer in Binaries: from onset to remnants

Conference

Computational Astrophysics

When

  • – ET

  • All Day

  • – ET

Where

160 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

Binary interactions shape the evolution, explosion, and afterlife of stars. The most common form of interaction is dynamically stable mass-transfer. The outcome of this mass-transfer phase is crucial to understanding the rate of most transient events (from stellar mergers, to stripped envelope supernovae and gravitational wave mergers), the kinematics of binary products (walkaway/runaways), and the formation rate of objects like Helium stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.

Although much recent attention has been given to common envelope evolution, many uncertainties remain in the theoretical modeling of stable mass transfer, making predictions about this phase challenging from start to finish. 
Current models, whether in rapid binary population synthesis or detailed stellar structure codes, rely on simple analytic parameterization to address the aforementioned uncertainties.

We are organizing a workshop to address the current state-of -the-art of stable mass-transfer from start to finish, including:

I) the onset and stability of mass transfer,

II) observable signatures during the mass transfer, and

III) post-stable mass transfer configurations. This workshop will bring together a community of theoretical modelers and experts on astronomical transient surveys/data scientists in order to discuss the necessary progress in the treatment of stable mass transfer.

Confimed Speakers:

Meng Sun (Northwestern)
Tomer Shenar (University of Tel Aviv)
Monica-Gallegos Garcia (Northwestern)
Chen Wang (MPA)
Hongwei Ge (Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Brian Metzger (Columbia/CCA)
Julia Bodensteiner (ESO)
Pablo Marchant (KU Leuven)
Holly Preece (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

March 11, 2024

Day 1: Group Discussion

March 11, 2024

Meng Sun: Tidal Physics in Binary Evolution

March 11, 2024

Milan Pesta: Low-Mass Contact Binaries: Laboratories for Studying Mass Transfer, Tidal Instabilities

March 11, 2024

Ruggero Valli: The Impact of Circumbinary Disks During Stable Mass Transfer

March 11, 2024

David Hendriks: Asynchronous Mass-Transfer

March 11, 2024

Hugues Sana and Silvia Toonen: Plenary Discussion

March 12, 2024

Pablo Marchant: Critical Rotation…Now What!?

March 12, 2024

Koushik Sen: Massive Algols as Whetstones for Binary Evolution

March 12, 2024

Jakub Cehula: A Theory of Mass Transfer through the Inner Lagrange Point

March 12, 2024

Jan Henneco: Stable Mass-Transfer Channels Leading to Stellar Mergers

March 12, 2024

Shazrene Mohamed & Emily Leiner: Plenary Discussion

March 12, 2024

Holly Preece: Reproducing the Orbital Parameters of Evolved Post-Interaction Binaries

March 12, 2024

Mikola Britavskiy: Which Binary Systems Will Help Us to Constrain the Mass Transfer Efficiency?

March 12, 2024

Reinhold Willcox: Progenitors of Stripped-Envelope Supervovae as Constraints on Mass Transfer Stability

March 12, 2024

Brian Metzger & Julia Bodensteiner: Electromagnetic Observables During Mass Transfer, Across Wavelengths and Timescale and Review & Group Discussion

March 13, 2024

Tomer Shenar: Observational Laboratories for Stable Mass Transfer in Massive Stars

March 13, 2024

Kyle Rocha: To Be or Not to Be: The Role of Rotation in Modeling Galactic Be X-ray Binaries

March 13, 2024

Amanda Rubio: Calibration of Binary Population Synthesis Models Using a Sample of White Dwarf Binaries from APOGEE/Galex/Gaia

March 13, 2024

Andrea Ercolino: Interacting Supernovae from Massive Mass Transferring Binaries

March 13, 2024

Simon J. Murphy & Amadeusz Miszuda: Asteroseismic Signatures of Mass Transfer and The Products of Mass Transfer

March 13, 2024

Monica Gallegos-Garcia: Stable Mass Transfer as a Formation Channel for Gravitational-Wave Sources

March 13, 2024

Amedeo Romagnolo: Black Hole Binaries: Which Ones May Come from Stable Mass Transfer Events?

March 13, 2024

Rafia Sarwar: Exploring Galactic Black Hole Binaries with LISA

March 13, 2024

Plenary Discussion

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