Dynamical friction in stratified stellar envelopes

arXiv:2607.16422 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-17 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-17

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: 19 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to A&A

Code: https://github.com/dgagnier/DF_stratified

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper

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