Meng Sun

About

Theoretical Astrophysics: white dwarfs, blue stragglers, asteroseismology, binary and stellar evolution, tidal physics, binary population synthesis

Work

National Astronomical Observatories

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Associate Professor

China

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Northwestern University

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CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow

US

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Northwestern University

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Postdoctoral Associate

US

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Research Associate

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Education

University of Virginia

United States of America
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University of Virginia

United States of America
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Publications

Formation of wind-fed black hole high-mass X-ray binaries: The role of Roche-lobe-overflow post black hole formation

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A new long gamma-ray burst formation pathway at solar metallicity

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Discovery of a Variable Yellow Supergiant Progenitor for the Type IIb SN 2024abfo

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Detailed Binary Evolution Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal

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The effect of mass loss in models of red supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Mass Transfer in Eccentric Orbits with Self-consistent Stellar Evolution

The Astrophysical Journal

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Emulators for stellar profiles in binary population modeling

Astronomy and Computing

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Challenges in Forming Millisecond Pulsar–Black Holes from Isolated Binaries

The Astrophysical Journal

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The Blue Lurker WOCS 14020: A Long-period Post-common-envelope Binary in M67 Originating from a Merger in a Triple System

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Stellar Spin Down in Post-Mass Transfer Binary Systems

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The formation of black holes in non-interacting isolated binaries

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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The coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars through episodic resonance locking

Nature Astronomy

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Stellar Spin-down in Post-mass-transfer Binary Systems

The Astrophysical Journal

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To Be or Not To Be: The Role of Rotation in Modeling Galactic Be X-Ray Binaries

The Astrophysical Journal

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Wind Roche-lobe Overflow in Low-mass Binaries: Exploring the Origin of Rapidly Rotating Blue Lurkers

The Astrophysical Journal

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From ZAMS to merger: Detailed binary evolution models of coalescing neutron star – black hole systems at solar metallicity

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Exploring the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources across stellar population ages using detailed binary evolution calculations

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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The intermittently-resonant coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars

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X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: Studying the signatures of different physical processes using detailed binary evolution calculations

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Stellar properties of an actively accreting Algol-type eclipsing binary 2M16212643+2136590

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Investigating the Lower Mass Gap with Low-mass X-Ray Binary Population Synthesis

The Astrophysical Journal

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A Black Hole Kicked at Birth: MAXI J1305-704

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Discrepant Approaches to Modeling Stellar Tides and the Blurring of Pseudosynchronization

The Astrophysical Journal

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The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity

Nature Astronomy

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Magnetic Braking with MESA Evolutionary Models in the Single Star and Low-mass X-Ray Binary Regimes

The Astrophysical Journal

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gyre_tides: Modeling Binary Tides within the GYRE Stellar Oscillation Code

The Astrophysical Journal

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gyre_tides: Modeling Binary Tides within the GYRE Stellar Oscillation Code

The Astrophysical Journal

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POSYDON: A General-purpose Population Synthesis Code with Detailed Binary-evolution Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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WOCS 4540: Detailed Analysis of a very Long Orbital Period Blue Straggler

The Astrophysical Journal

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WOCS 4540: Detailed Analysis of a very Long Orbital Period Blue Straggler

The Astrophysical Journal

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TESS Giants Transiting Giants. II. The Hottest Jupiters Orbiting Evolved Stars

The Astronomical Journal

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The formation of $30\,M_\odot$ merging black holes at solar metallicity

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A new window to tidal asteroseismology: non-linearly excited stellar eigenmodes and the period spacing pattern in KOI-54

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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TESS Giants Transiting Giants. II. The Hottest Jupiters Orbiting Evolved Stars

The Astronomical Journal

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WOCS 5379: Detailed Analysis of the Evolution of a Post-mass-transfer Blue Straggler

The Astrophysical Journal

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2M17091769+3127589: A Mass-transfer Binary with an Extreme Mass Ratio

The Astronomical Journal

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WOCS 5379: Detailed Analysis of the Evolution of a Post-mass-transfer Blue Straggler

The Astrophysical Journal

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2M17091769+3127589: A Mass-transfer Binary with an Extreme Mass Ratio

The Astronomical Journal

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Formation of Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries

The Astrophysical Journal

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Formation of Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries

The Astrophysical Journal

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Orbital decay in binaries containing post-main-sequence stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pulsating White Dwarfs and Orbital Decay in Binaries

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Tidal Dissipation in WASP-12

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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