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common envelope evolution: a standalone construct

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Astrophysics

a binary star phase in which one star engulfs its companion, and drag inside the shared envelope shrinks the orbit and may eject the envelope.

In astrophysics, common envelope evolution refers to a binary star phase in which one star engulfs its companion, and drag inside the shared envelope shrinks the orbit and may eject the envelope. This meaning comes from Ivanova (2013) in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review.[1]

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  1. Ivanova, N., Justham, S., Chen, X., De Marco, O., Fryer, C. L., Gaburov, E., Ge, H., Glebbeek, E., Han, Z., Li, X. -., Lu, G., Marsh, T., Podsiadlowski, P., Potter, A., Soker, N., Taam, R., Tauris, T. M., van den Heuvel, E. P. J., & Webbink, R. F. (2013). Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-013-0059-2

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