Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999a%26a...347..915i&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.347, p.915-918 (1999)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Novae, Cataclysmic Variables, Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Pulsars: General, Stars: Individual: Ae Aqr
Scientific paper
The rapid braking on the white dwarf in the close binary AE Aqr\ can be explained in terms of the pulsar mechanism provided the magnetic moment of the star mu >~ 1.4 x 10(34) G cm(3) . Under this condition the magnetic field is strong enough to prevent accretion with the rate <~ 10(-4.3}M_{sun ) yr(-1) onto the white dwarf surface, so the traditional accretion-driven spin up mechanism cannot be applied to this system without additional assumptions. A scenario in which the initial magnetic moment of the white dwarf was essentially weaker than its present value is explored. A weakly magnetized ( ~ 10(4) G) white dwarf was slowly spinning up by accretion of matter from its normal companion until its period P >~ P_cr =~ 20 s. When the period had decreased beyond P_cr the white dwarf lost its angular momentum via the gravitational waves that caused strong differential rotation. The magnetic field inside the star was winding up on a time scale of a month up to ~ 10(8-10^9) G. This field manifests itself at the surface due to buoyant instability producing a surface field of 10(7-10^8) G. As a result the white dwarf changed its initial accretor state to the presently observed ejector state, i.e. it is spinning down predominantly due to the magneto-dipole waves generation and particle acceleration.
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