Hot Accretion onto White Dwarfs in Quiescent Dwarf Novae

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2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112197v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 eps figures. Accepted to ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/339053

We present dynamically consistent solutions for hot accretion onto unmagnetized, rotating white dwarfs (WDs) in five quiescent dwarf novae. The measured WD rotation rates (and other system parameters) in RX And, SS Cyg, U Gem, VW Hyi and WZ Sge imply spindown of the WD by an extended hot flow emitting most of its X-rays in the vicinity of the stellar surface. In general, energy advection is absent and the flow is stable to convection and hydrodynamical outflows. In rapidly rotating systems, the X-ray luminosity provides only an upper limit on the quiescent accretion rate because of substantial stellar spindown luminosity. We suggest that the presence of hot flows in quiescent dwarf novae may limit the long-term WD rotation rates to significantly sub-Keplerian values.

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