Non-synchronous secondaries in cataclysmic variables

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Aug 1986

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 221, Aug. 1, 1986, p. 55P-59P.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Secular Variations, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Rotation, Nonsynchronization, Orbital Elements

Scientific paper

The possibility that the secondary stars of cataclysmic variables (CVs) might be in non-synchronous rotation has recently been raised by van Paradijs. Here the authors consider the secular evolution of CVs under this assumption. They show that the resulting distribution of CV accretion rates with orbital period is in conflict with observation, and that currently favoured explanations of the CV period gap between 3 and 2 hr orbital period would have to be abandoned if there were any significant degree of asynchronism.

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