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The Origin and Evolution of Novae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The cataclysmic binaries are products of the nonconservative evolution of close binaries with large initial mass ratios of components. The accretors in cataclysmic binaries can be helium or carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarfs. Their annual birthrates are ~0.005, ~0.005, and ~0.00005 respectively. In one-zone approximation of a thin accreting shell we estimate the critical masses of hydrogen and helium shells and recurrence time scales of thermonuclear runaways.
- Type
- 3. Theory
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 122: Physics of Classical Novae , 1990 , pp. 325 - 341
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- Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1990