The location and size of the hot spot in cataclysmic variable stars.
Abstract
Single particle trajectories have been calculated for material leaving the inner Lagrangian point of close binary systems at thermal velocities. The dimensions and location of the stream as it reaches the ring around the primary were calculated for a range of mass ratios. Applications to VV Pup and U Gem are given.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1972
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/160.1.15
- Bibcode:
- 1972MNRAS.160...15W