Natalie Rees
Postgraduate Research Student
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My research project
Merged red giant starsMany binary systems do not survive common-envelope evolution: instead they merge to form single, peculiar giants, the 'red stragglers'. Detailed models of these giants will be constructed to predict stellar-structure, rotation and chemistry, and then be compared to the latest observations to understand the mysterious, but hugely important, common-envelope mergers.
Many binary systems do not survive common-envelope evolution: instead they merge to form single, peculiar giants, the 'red stragglers'. Detailed models of these giants will be constructed to predict stellar-structure, rotation and chemistry, and then be compared to the latest observations to understand the mysterious, but hugely important, common-envelope mergers.