The accretion of solar material onto white dwarfs: No mixing with core material implies that the mass of the white dwarf is increasing
Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are close binary star systems with one component a white dwarf (WD) and the other a larger cooler star that fills its Roche Lobe. The cooler star is losing mass through the inner Lagrangian point of the binary and some unknown fraction of this material is accreted by the...
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| Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2014-02-01
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| Series: | AIP Advances |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4866984 |