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Mass Transfer in Low Mass Close Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Kinwah Wu*
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

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The mass transfer process in low mass close binaries is reviewed. The driving mechanisms and the stability properties are discussed by means of general, simple formulations. A model in terms of mass transfer instabilities is suggested to explain the outbursts of GRO J1655–40 in 1994.

Type
Part 7. Local and Global Instabilities and Disk Perturbations
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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