Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-09-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in ApJ, (reference revised)
Scientific paper
Two types of nova evolutions can be realized in low mass white dwarfs of ~0.5-0.7 M_sun, i.e., an evolution with optically thick winds like in usual classical novae, or an another type of evolution without them like in the symbiotic nova PU Vul. The latter type is characterized by spectra of no indication of strong winds as well as a long-lasted flat optical peak in its light curve. We propose a transition from no-optically-thick-wind evolution to usual evolution with optically thick winds as a new outburst model for slow novae that show a relatively long-lasted multipeak phase followed by a wind phase like in the slow novae V723 Cas, HR Del, and V5558 Sgr. We calculated nova envelopes with one-dimensional approximation of the companion's effects and found that when the companion star is deeply embedded in the extended nova envelope, the structure of static envelope approaches that of the optically thick wind solution. Thus, the transition from static to wind solution is triggered by the effect of the companion. The transition occurs in a close binary nova like V723 Cas, but is not triggered in a long period binary like PU Vul. We reconfirm our previous results that the frictional energy deposition is negligibly small in almost all of hydrogen/helium novae because of the low envelope density at the orbit.
Hachisu Izumi
Kato Mariko
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