Tidal spin-up and magnetic braking in cataclysmic variables

Details Tidal spin-up and magnetic braking in cataclysmic variables Tidal spin-up and magnetic braking in cataclysmic variables

Jan 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986mnras.218p..31v&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 218, Jan. 15, 1986, p. 31p-35p.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Orbits, Stellar Rotation, Angular Velocity, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Evolution

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Based on proposed models for the tidal spin-up and magnetic braking of stars with a convective outer envelope the author suggests that the rotation of secondaries in cataclysmic variables is not necessarily synchronized with the orbital revolution. This may provide an explanation for the observed large range in the mass transfer rate (at the same orbital period) of cataclysmic variables above the period gap.

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