The mechanism of circumbinary envelope formation in close binaries

Details The mechanism of circumbinary envelope formation in close binaries The mechanism of circumbinary envelope formation in close binaries

Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007arep...51..836s&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Reports, Volume 51, Issue 10, pp.836-846

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

10

97.80.Fk, 97.10.Fy, 97.10.Gz

Scientific paper

We consider the structure and formation of the circumbinary envelopes in semi-detached binary systems. Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the gas dynamics are used to study the flow pattern in a binary system after it has reached the steady-state accretion regime. The outer parts of the circumbinary envelope are replenished by periodic ejections from the accretion disk and circum-disk halo through the vicinity of the Lagrange point L3. In this mechanism, the shape and position of a substantial part of the disk is specified by a precessional density wave. On timescales comparable to the orbital period, the precessional wave (and hence an appreciable fraction of the disk) will be virtually stationary in the observer’s frame, whereas the positions of other elements of the flow will vary due to the orbital rotation. The periodic variations of the positions of the disk and the bow shock formed when the inner parts of the circumbinary envelope flow around the disk result in variations in both the rate of angular-momentum transfer to the disk and the flow structure near L3. All these factors lead to a periodic increase of the matter flow into the outer layers of the circumbinary envelope through the vicinity of L3. The total duration of the ejection is approximately half the orbital period.

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