Ultrashort-period binaries. III. The accretion of hydrogen-rich matter onto a white dwarf of one solar mass.
Abstract
We have followed the thermonuclear runaways which develop when white dwarfs of 1 M0 accrete hydrogenrich material at 10-10 M0 per annum, a canonical rate of accretion which would accompany the emission of gravitational radiation in ultrashort-period binaries. The existence of such thermonuclear effects is a necessar but not sufficient criterion for gravitational radiation to play an important role in the evolution of these binaries. Subject headings: binaries - dwarf novae - gravitation - white dwarf stars
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- June 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1086/153619
- Bibcode:
- 1975ApJ...198..435T
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Mass Transfer;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Mass;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Astronomical Models;
- Gravitational Fields;
- Hydrogen;
- Novae;
- Astrophysics