VizieR Online Data Catalog: Mass transfer from post-main-sequence donor stars (Temmink+, 2023)

Aspects of binary stellar evolution pertaining to the stability of mass transfer are presented. This includes the location of the boundary between stable and unstable mass transfer according to three different physical criteria in the form of a critical mass ratio q (q=Ma/Md), above which mass transfer is expected to be stable and self-regulating, and a critical mass transfer rate, above which the donor star transitions to an adiabatic response, resulting in a mass transfer instability in our simulations. Further properties presented include the location of our simulation grid points in donor mass and radius at the onset of RLOF, as well as quantities summarizing the mass transfer, such as the global KH mass transfer rate, and the average and peak mass transfer rates found in our calculations.

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