The effect of a binary companion on a nova outburst
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- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 191 (4) , 933-949
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/191.4.933
Abstract
We compare two calculations of thermonuclear runaways in solar composition material (Z = 0.02) accreted by a 1 M⊙ white dwarf. We include the interaction of the expanding envelope with a red dwarf companion in only one of the evolutionary sequences. A slow nova results when this binary interaction is included but when it is omitted the outbursts more nearly resemble the very slow novae, like RR Tel and RT Ser.Keywords
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