Group member Prof. Stephen Justham coauthored this new textbook on what is without question the least understood type of binary interaction: the common envelope phase. During this phase stars temporarily share the same outer layers. This phase is essential for a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena: including cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries, progenitors for type Ia supernovae, and gravitational-wave mergers. Read the introductory chapter here for free: https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1563-0/chapter/bk978-0-7503-1563-0ch1
By Natasha Ivanova, Stephen Justham and Paul Ricker. https://doi.org/10.1088/2514-3433/abb6f0 Online ISBN: 978-0-7503-1563-0 • Print ISBN: 978-0-7503-1561-6
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