The nature of the primary in AE Aquarii.
Abstract
The main parameters of the primary in the close binary system AEAqr are considered on the basis of published observational data. Parallel to the commonly accepted model an alternative one - a binary with a light neutron star - is discussed. It is shown that the alternative model supposes the accretor-propeller state of the primary and allows to classify the evolutionary status of AEAqr as a Pre- Low Mass X-ray Pulsar. The value of the magnetic moment of the primary as well as the Alfven radius in both models are estimated.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- August 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995A&A...300..207I
- Keywords:
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- ACCRETION;
- STARS: CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES;
- STARS: NEUTRON;
- STARS: AE AQR