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Cataclysmic Variable Stars*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. T. Bath*
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, Oxford University, Oxford, England

Abstract

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The properties of cataclysmic variable outbursts are reviewed, and interpreted in terms of dynamical instabilities by the red component, and subsequent evolution of the white dwarf accretion disc subject to a mass transfer burst in the transfer stream.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984

Footnotes

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Paper presented at the Lembang-Bamberg IAU Colloquium No. 80 on ‘Double Stars: Physical Properties and Generic Relations', held at Bandung, Indonesia, 3-7 June, 1983.

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