Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: The Effects of Binary Mass Ratio and Implications for the Accretion-Driven Growth of LIGO Binary Black Holes

1 code implementation • 29 Oct 2019 • Soumi De, Morgan MacLeod, Rosa Wallace Everson, Andrea Antoni, Ilya Mandel, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We demonstrate that the mass and spin accrued by these black holes per unit orbital tightening are directly related to the ratio of accretion to drag coefficients.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena