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Classical Novae in the Context of the Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Hans Ritter*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1, D–8046 Garching, Fed. Rep.Germany

Abstract

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In this paper we explore to what extent the TNR model of nova outbursts and our current concepts of the formation and secular evolution of cataclysmic binaries are compatible. Specifically we address the following questions: 1) whether observational selection can explain the high white dwarf masses attributed to novae, 2) whether novae on white dwarfs in the mass range 0.6MM ≲ 0.9M can occur and how much they could contribute to the observed nova frequency, and 3) whether the high mass transfer rates imposed on the white dwarf in systems above the period gap can be accommodated by the TNR model of nova outbursts.

Type
3. Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1990

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