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Nucleation in Novae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.M. Callus ,
J.S. Albinson  and
A. Evans
C.M. Callus
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, U.K.
J.S. Albinson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, U.K.
A. Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, U.K.

Abstract

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We consider the possibility that dust grains in novae could nucleate on ions. We examine how different ejected masses and different elemental abundances effect the availability of nucleation centres, and we show how this model could explain why only novae of intermediate speed classes form dust.

Type
V. Nova and Dwarf Nova Outbursts
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 93: Cataclysmic Variables: Recent Multi-Frequency Observations and Theoretical Developments , 1987 , pp. 437 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987

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