Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008apj...678.1530s&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 678, Issue 2, pp. 1530-1530.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
In our original paper, we neglected to acknowledge the related studies of S. Cassini et al. (ApJ, 660, 1444 [2007]) and L. Piersanti et al. (ApJ, 660, 1444 [2007]), which examined the stability of hydrogen burning on accreting white dwarfs (WDs) via numerical and semianalytical work. Cassisi et al. (1998) found that stable burning occurs for accretion rates between Ṁ=2.4×10-8 and 1.2×10-7 Msolar yr-1 for a 0.516 Msolar WD, and between 1.2 and 3.0×10-7 Msolar yr-1 for a 0.8 Msolar WD. Our stably burning range of 4.4×10-8-1.2×10-7 Msolar yr-1 for core mass M=0.516 Msolar is in agreement with theirs, and our results for M=0.8 Msolar are within a few percent of their results. When compared to the solar and lower metallicity results of Piersanti et al. (2000) for M=0.52-0.6 Msolar, our critical Ṁ values are higher by ~50%, with the discrepancy again diminishing as the core mass increases. As noted in our comparison to K. Nomoto et al. (ApJ, 660, 1444 [2007]), the difference for low mass, <0.6 Msolar, is most likely due to our approximation of the burning region as a scale height.
Bildsten Lars
Shen Ken J.
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