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The Decay Time after a Thermonuclear Flash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Marina Orio
Marina Orio*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics Technion 32000, Haifa Israel

Abstract

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The drag luminosity produced by a secondary embedded in a nova envelope is calculated and it is assumed to liberate gravitational energy. The results of a preliminary calculation show that the time for envelope ejection and therefore for the light decay varies sharply with the binary distance. It would be considerably reduced if the binary distance is a < 2 RO. It is suggested that this is the main difference between the thermonuclear runaway of symbiotic stars and nova systems, instead of other physical parameters.

Type
Session 2. The Physics of the Symbiotic Phenomenon
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 103: The Symbiotic Phenomenon , 1988 , pp. 173 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988

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