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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
The cataclysmic binaries are products of the nonconservative evolution of close binaries with large initial mass ratios of components. The accretors in cataclysmic binaries can be helium or carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarfs. Their annual birthrates are ~0.005, ~0.005, and ~0.00005 respectively. In one-zone approximation of a thin accreting shell we estimate the critical masses of hydrogen and helium shells and recurrence time scales of thermonuclear runaways.