AN AMR STUDY OF THE COMMON-ENVELOPE PHASE OF BINARY EVOLUTION
AN AMR STUDY OF THE COMMON-ENVELOPE PHASE OF BINARY EVOLUTION
The hydrodynamic evolution of the common envelope phase of a low mass binary composed of a 1.05 Msun red giant and a 0.6 Msun companion has been followed for five orbits of the system using a high resolution method in three spatial dimensions. During the rapid inspiral phase, the interaction …