Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ap%26ss.233..317l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 233, Issue 1-2, pp. 317-321
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Novae, Numerical Hydrodynamics
Scientific paper
Classical nova outbursts occur in binary systems containing a white dwarf accretor and a Roche-lobe-filling main-sequence star. The outburst is due to a thermonuclear runaway in the accreted material on the surface of the white dwarf, and results in the ejection of up to 10-4 M &sun;of material at velocities of several hundred to a few thousand kilometres per second. There is now strong evidence that the mass ejection takes place via a wind with secularly increasing velocity. The fast ejecta catches up with slower moving material ejected earlier in the outburst, forming a layer of shock-heated gas which gives rise to a short burst of soft X-ray emission. This emission was observed in V838 Her (Nova Herculis 1991), and was succesfully accounted for by the ‘interacting winds’ model. In this paper, we present 2.5-D numerical hydrodynamics calculations of interacting winds in novae which consider the effects of the binary system on shaping the mass-loss, and show that many of the features seen in the optical shells of novae many years after outburst can be accounted for.
Bode Michael F.
Lloyd H. M.
O'Brien Jennifer Therese
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