Non explosive collapse of white dwarfs

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Jan 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976a%26a....46..229c&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 46, no. 2, Jan. 1976, p. 229-235.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

67

Binary Stars, Gravitational Collapse, Neutron Stars, Stellar Evolution, White Dwarf Stars, X Ray Sources, Companion Stars, Critical Mass, Novae, Nuclear Reactions

Scientific paper

The neutron stars present in binary X-ray sources are most likely formed by a nonexplosive process. It is shown that if a sufficiently cold carbon-oxygen white dwarf (close to the critical mass) accretes matter from a companion in a binary system, the time scale of collapse is long enough to allow neutronization before the onset of pycnonuclear reactions. This can possibly lead to the formation of X-ray sources by a non-explosive collapse.

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