On internal inconsistencies in the discontinuity model for contact binary stars

Details On internal inconsistencies in the discontinuity model for contact binary stars On internal inconsistencies in the discontinuity model for contact binary stars

Jan 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980mnras.190..177s&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 190, Jan. 1980, p. 177-183.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astrophysics, Binary Stars, Stellar Models, Baroclinity, Discontinuity, Temperature Inversions

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In an attempt to devise a thermal-equilibrium model for low-mass contact binary stars, Shu, Lubow, and Anderson (1976, 1979) have found a temperature discontinuity to be a necessary feature of the envelope of the secondary component. In the present paper, an analysis of this model reveals certain internal errors and inconsistences in the order-of-magnitude calculations, the removal of any or all of which would result in a model that violates requirements which Shu et al. themselves state to be necessary for an acceptable model.

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