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Different common envelope stripping depending on the phase, where merger happens
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Since May 21, 2025.
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Description
Currently, we have one treatment to account for partial stripping during a CE merger. This is based on the alpha-lambda shrinkage by stripping from the stellar profile.
We still need to update how to deal with the ejected mass for the two cases:
- merging during the alpha-lambda part (that's what's currently always used); here we should get it more self-consistent to use not only the core mass, but the full remaining mass to determine the released orbital energy.
- merging during the post CEE mass loss (e.g. stable MT); this should be more like we treat other cases of getting a merger during stable MT (I think we don't have this at the moment, because we avoid those case by going to CEE first on L2 overflow); in principle all the mass during the first phase should be lost (currently we may lose less in some cases) and there needs to be a treatment on the profile doing further stripping with orbital change according to the type of the second phase.
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