The Possible Nature of Dips in the Light Curves of Semi-Detached Binaries with Stationary Disks

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2005-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508353v2

Astron.Rep.49:701-708,2005; Astron.Zh.Akad.Nauk SSSR.82:788-796,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1134/1.2045320

A thickening at the outer edge of the accretion disk is usually invoked to explain the dips in the light curves of cataclysmic variables with stationary disks at phases ~0.7. The non-collisional interaction between the stream and the disk in the stationary solution raises the question of why matter appears at a considerable height above the accretion disk in such systems. Our three-dimensional numerical modeling demonstrates that a thickening of the halo above the disk can appear even in the absence of a direct collision between the stream and the disk. In the gas-dynamical flow pattern described with the "hot-line" model, a considerable fraction of the matter is accelerated in the vertical direction during the flow's interaction with the circumdisk halo. The vertical motion of the gas due to the presence of the z component of the velocity leads to a gradual thickening of the circumdisk halo. The computations reveal the strongest thickening of the halo above the outer edge of the disk at phases ~0.7, in agreement with observations for stationary-disk cataclysmic variables. This supports the hot-line model suggested earlier as a description of the pattern of the matter flows in semi-detached binaries, and presents new possibilities for interpreting the light curves of such systems.

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