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Hydrodynamical Modelling of T Pyxidis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2018

Guillermo García-Segura
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía-UNAM
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History
Michael M. Shara
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History

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The Hubble Space Telescope observations showed that some nova outbursts may not produce smooth shells of gas, but thousands of gaseous blobs. In the case of T Pyx the blobs are distributed in eight concentric circles around the exploding star, producing a pattern similar to tree rings. We explore here the formation of the tree rings by hydrodynamical simulations.

Type
The Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Instituto de astronomia/revista mexicana de astronomίa y astrofίsica 2004

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