Consequences of mass transfer fluctuations in close binaries

Details Consequences of mass transfer fluctuations in close binaries Consequences of mass transfer fluctuations in close binaries

Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989mnras.237...39h&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 237, March 1, 1989, p. 39-47.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Cataclysmic Variables, Magnetic Stars, Stellar Mass, X Ray Binaries, Angular Momentum, Companion Stars, Roche Limit

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The known scatter in accretion rates for a given orbital period in close binaries must reflect long-term fluctuations about a secular mean rate. It is shown that if these fluctuations have a characteristic time-scale of 100,000 yr or more, magnetic cataclysmic variables in the period range 3 to 4 hrs can switch between the nonsynchronous (intermediate polar) and synchronous (AM Her) classes. The effect of such fluctuations in low-mass X-ray binaries is investigated.

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