Ejecta-Companion Interaction in Massive Star Binaries
SPEAKER
Ryosuke Hirai, Waseda
PLACE
Meeting Room 1, Kenkyu Honkan 1F
Recent surveys show that almost all massive stars are born in binary systems. From the fact that these massive stars are the progenitors for core-collapse supernovae, the majority of these events should be occuring in binaries. When a star explodes in a binary, the companion may be affected by the supernova ejecta, possibly changing the further evolution of the binary. In this talk I will introduce results of hydrodynamical simulations of supernova ejecta hitting a star in massive binaries. We focus on the mass removed and its dependences on parameters. I will also show its application on a real supernova, iPTF13bvn, and our prediction on the possible observational features of the companion star.