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Close Binary (and Pulsating) Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Howard E. Bond
Howard E. Bond*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University

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Close-binary central stars of planetary nebulae are of interest to participants in this Colloquium because of recent suggestions that the cataclysmic binaries, containing a white dwarf and a lower-main-sequence star, may be descended from such objects (e.g. Paczynski 1976; Ritter 1976; Webbink 1978; Meyer and Meyer-Hofmeister 1978; Livio, Salzman, and Shaviv 1979). The proposed scenario is. that a binary system of initially large separation (P.= 1-10 yr) forms a “common-envelope” binary after the primary has evolved to the red-giant stage and developed a degenerate core. The secondary star spirals inward inside the red-giant envelope, eventually transferring enough angular momentum to the envelope to eject it. The result is a close binary containing the hot degenerate core of the red giant and a cool main-sequence companion, surrounded by the ejected envelope, which is ionized by the hotter star. Much later, when the cool companion begins to evolve, it will start to transfer matter to the hot star (by now a white dwarf), and cataclysmic activity ensues.

Type
Colloquium Session IV
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 266 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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