Kinematics of Mass Loss from L2

Dominika Hubova expanded her Bachelor thesis and took the deepest look so far at ballistic mass loss from L2, focusing on what happens if the matter stream is initiated with offset from L2 and with a velocity kick. Dominika characterized the parameter space and found some new stream trajectories. Interestingly, even if the stream is launched slower than corotation, there are still many initial positions near L2 that provide sufficient tidal torque to unbind the material.

Paper is now accepted to MNRAS: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02659v1