Publications (25)
Asymmetric Accretion Flows within a Common Envelope
Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Merger of white dwarf-neutron star binaries: Prelude to hydrodynamic simulations in general relativity
Vasileios Paschalidis, Morgan MacLeod, Thomas W. Baumgarte +1
Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: Coefficients of Drag and Accretion in a Simplified Context for Studying Flows Around Objects Embedded Within Stellar Envelopes
Morgan MacLeod, Andrea Antoni, Ariadna Murgia-Berthier +2
Lessons from the Onset of a Common Envelope Episode: the Remarkable M31 2015 Luminous Red Nova Outburst
Morgan MacLeod, Phillip Macias, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +3
The Close Stellar Companions to Intermediate Mass Black Holes
Morgan MacLeod, Michele Trenti, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Self-lensing Discovery of a $0.2\,M_\odot$ White Dwarf in an Unusually Wide Orbit Around a Sun-like Star
Kento Masuda, Hajime Kawahara, David W. Latham +4
The authors report the discovery of a 0.2 M⊙ white dwarf in a wide (≈1.3 au) eccentric orbit around a Sun-like star, identified through self‑lensing events in Kepler data and confi…
Correlation Between Mass Segregation and Structural Concentration in Relaxed Stellar Clusters
Ruggero de Vita, Michele Trenti, Morgan MacLeod
Runaway Coalescence at the Onset of Common Envelope Episodes
Morgan MacLeod, Eve C. Ostriker, James M. Stone
The Formation of Eccentric Compact Binary Inspirals and the Role of Gravitational Wave Emission in Binary-Single Stellar Encounters
Johan Samsing, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Spoon-Feeding Giant Stars to Supermassive Black Holes: Episodic Mass Transfer from Evolving Stars and Their Contribution to the Quiescent Activity of Galactic Nuclei
Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Sean Grady +1
Polygram Stars: Resonant Tidal Excitation of Fundamental Oscillation Modes in Asynchronous Stellar Coalescence
Morgan MacLeod, Michelle Vick, Dong Lai +1
Bound Outflows, Unbound Ejecta, and the Shaping of Bipolar Remnants during Stellar Coalescence
Morgan MacLeod, Eve C. Ostriker, James M. Stone
Dissipative Evolution of Unequal Mass Binary-Single Interactions and its Relevance to Gravitational Wave Detections
Johan Samsing, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
An Arena for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: Inspiral and Tidal Disruption of White Dwarfs by Massive Black Holes
Michael Eracleous, Suvi Gezari, Alberto Sesana +4
Planetary Engulfment in the Hertzsprung--Russell Diagram
Morgan MacLeod, Matteo Cantiello, Melinda Soares-Furtado
Illuminating Massive Black Holes With White Dwarfs: Orbital Dynamics and High Energy Transients from Tidal Interactions
Morgan MacLeod, Jacqueline Goldstein, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +2
Wandering off the centre: a characterization of the random motion of intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters
Ruggero de Vita, Michele Trenti, Morgan MacLeod
On the Accretion-Fed Growth of Neutron Stars During Common Envelope
Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Optical Thermonuclear Transients From Tidal Compression of White Dwarfs as Tracers of the Low End of the Massive Black Hole Mass Function
Morgan MacLeod, James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +2
The Tidal Disruption of Giant Stars and Their Contribution to the Flaring Supermassive Black Hole Population
Morgan MacLeod, James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Discovery of three self-lensing binaries from Kepler
Hajime Kawahara, Kento Masuda, Morgan MacLeod +3
Accretion Disk Assembly During Common Envelope Evolution: Implications for Feedback and LIGO Binary Black Hole Formation
Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +2
Compact Stellar Binary Assembly in the First Nuclear Star Clusters and r-Process Synthesis in the Early Universe
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Michele Trenti, Morgan MacLeod +3
Formation of Tidal Captures and Gravitational Wave Inspirals in Binary-Single Interactions
Johan Samsing, Morgan MacLeod, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Possible Origin of the G2 Cloud from the Tidal Disruption of a Known Giant Star by Sgr A*
James Guillochon, Abraham Loeb, Morgan MacLeod +1