Abstract In the two-phase scenario of galaxy formation, a galaxy’s stellar mass growth is first dominated by in-situ star and subsequently accretion. We analyze radial distribution accreted in ∼500 galaxies from (48 Mpc/ h ) 3 box volume hydrodynamical cosmological simulation Magneticum, stellar-mass range 10 to 12 M ⊙ . find that higher-mass have larger fractions, as found previous works, but ...

The aim of this paper is to compare the two cases of an isolated neutron star, with a non-accreted crust, and that of an accreting neutron star, with an accreted crust, and try to estimate which one of the two would make a better source of gravitational waves. In order to do this we must evaluate the maximum " mountain " that the crust can sustain in these two cases. We first do this using the ...

Gilles Chabrier1, Alexander Y. Potekhin2;1;3, and Dmitry G. Yakovlev2 ABSTRACT The relationships between the e ective surface temperature Te and internal temperature Tb of nonmagnetized neutron stars with and without accreted envelopes are calculated for Te > 5 104 K. We use updated equations of state and radiative opacities, and we improve considerably the electron conductive opacity. We exami...

We investigate the formation of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars via the scenario of mass transfer from a carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch primary to a low-mass companion in a binary system. We explore the extent to which material accreted from a companion star mixes with that of the recipient, focusing on the effects of thermohaline mixing and gravitational settling. We have created ...

The water content and habitability of terrestrial planets are determined during their final assembly, from perhaps 100 1,000-km "planetary embryos " and a swarm of billions of 1-10-km "planetesimals. " During this process, we assume that water-rich material is accreted by terrestrial planets via impacts of water-rich bodies that originate in the outer asteroid region. We present analysis of wat...

We follow the time dependent thermal evolution of a white dwarf (WD) undergoing sudden accretion in a dwarf nova outburst, using both simulations and analytic estimates. The post-outburst lightcurve clearly separates into early times when the WD flux is high, and late times when the flux is near the quiescent level. The break between these two regimes, occurring at a time of order the outburst ...