On the rapid spin-down of AE Aquarii

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Apr 2000

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THE FIFTH COMPTON SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 510, pp. 241-244 (2000).

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X-Ray Binaries, Stellar Rotation, Accretion And Accretion Disks

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The exact nature of the large spin-down power of AE Aqr has not been well explained mainly due to the fact that the observed luminosities in various energy ranges are much lower than the spin-down power. We consider an unconventional picture of AE Aqr in which an accreting white dwarf, modeled as a magnetic dipole whose axis is misaligned with the spin axis, is rapidly spun-down via gravitational radiation emission and therefore the spin-down power is not directly connected to any observable electromagnetic emission. We propose that the rapid spin-down is caused by the non-axisymmetric polar mounds of accreted material slowly spreading away from the magnetic poles over the surface of the star. .

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