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A Wave Model for Dwarf Novae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Warren M. Sparks  and
G. Siegfried Kutter
Warren M. Sparks
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
G. Siegfried Kutter
Affiliation:
The Evergreen State College

Abstract

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The rapid coherent oscillation during a dwarf nova outburst is attributed to an accretion-driven wave going around the white dwarf component of the binary system. The increase and decrease in the period of this oscillation is due to the change in the velocity of the wave as it is first being driven and then damped. Qualitatively, a large number of observations can be explained with such a model. The beginnings of a mathematical representation of this model are developed.

Type
XI. Novae
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 58: Stellar Hydrodynamics , August 1980 , pp. 643 - 648
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980

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