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Numerical Modelling of the Classical Nova Outburst

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Siegfried Kutter
Affiliation:
Lab. for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Warren M. Sparks
Affiliation:
Applied Theoretical Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

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We describe a mechanism that promises to explain how classical nova outbursts take place on white dwarfs of 1 M or less and for accretion rates of 4 × 10−10 M yr−1 or greater.

Type
Part III. Chemical and Dynamical Structures of Exploding Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1988

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