Can the quiescent accretion discs in the dwarf novae OY CAR and Z Cha be in a steady state?

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Accretion Disks, Cataclysmic Variables, Dwarf Novae, Steady State, Astronomical Models, Brightness Temperature, Optical Thickness, Stellar Mass Accretion, Temperature Distribution

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The present effort to fit flat brightness temperature profiles in the accretion disks in OY Car and Z Cha with steady-state models of the optically thin type proposed by Tylenda (1981) and Williams (1980) fails to fit observations. Even if the gas stream penetrates deeply into an optically thick, steady-state disk, and is stripped of mass according to a particular function, this stripping function causes the stream to exhaust its mass while still in the outermost part of the disk; this again cannot account for the flat profiles while retaining the steady-state, optically thick assumption.

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