Visualizing an SPH Model of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Variables

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Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.7611m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #76.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1372

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We present results of an SPH model of accretion disks in short-period mass-transferring binaries using \underbar{IBM Data Explorer} to visualize and animate the data. Surfaces of constant density are displayed as three-dimensional objects. Various cross-sectional plane views illustrate the interior thermal structure of the disk. These visualizations clearly show shock waves which appear to be quasi-static in the corotating frame of reference, and which therefore may be a possible mechanism for generating the observed quasi-periodic photometric variations in cataclysmic variables.

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