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Prospects of Constraining Equilibrium Tides in Low-Mass Binary Stars
Jessica Birky, Rory K. Barnes, James R. A. Davenport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12639 …

Prospects of Constraining Equilibrium Tides in Low-Mass Binary Stars
The dynamical evolution of short-period low-mass binary stars (with mass $M < 1.5M_{\odot}$, from formation to the late main-sequence, and with orbital periods less than $\sim$10 days) is strongly influenced by tidal dissipation. This process drives orbital and rotational evolution that ultimately results in circularized orbits and rotational frequencies synchronized with the orbital frequency. Despite the fundamental role of tidal dissipation in binary evolution, constraining its magnitude of …