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Recurrent Novae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Mario Livio
Mario Livio*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 and Dept. of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

Abstract

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An examination of the existing observational material on all the objects classified as recurrent novae, reveals that only T Pyx, U Sco, T CrB and RS Oph deserve such a classification. We review the properties of outbursts powered by thermonuclear runaways and accretion events and determine their observational consequences. We conclude that the outbursts of T CrB and RS Oph are very probably caused by accretion events from a giant companion onto a main sequence star. The outbursts of T Pyx and U Sco may be powered by thermonuclear runaways on the surface of white dwarfs with masses close to the Chandrasekhar limit. However, some questions, in particular regarding the composition of the accreted material in U Sco remain to be answered.

Type
Session 5. Symbiotic Phenomena and Stellar Evolution. Conclusions.
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 103: The Symbiotic Phenomenon , 1988 , pp. 323 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988

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