Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events
Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events
When Stars Get Too Close Stellar outbursts used to come in two classes: supernovae and novae, the complete explosions and the thermonuclear runaways on the surface of evolved stars, respectively. Over the past two decades a class of stellar outbursts emerged with luminosities between those of novae and supernovaeāintermediate-luminosity red ā¦