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Mass Transfer in Low Mass Close Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Kinwah Wu
Kinwah Wu*
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

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The mass transfer process in low mass close binaries is reviewed. The driving mechanisms and the stability properties are discussed by means of general, simple formulations. A model in terms of mass transfer instabilities is suggested to explain the outbursts of GRO J1655–40 in 1994.

Type
Part 7. Local and Global Instabilities and Disk Perturbations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 283 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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