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The Role of Gravitational Radiation in the Evolution of Dwarf Novae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

John Faulkner
John Faulkner*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Mechanisms promoting mass transfer include (i) envelope instability or (ii) nuclear evolution of the red star and (iii) gravitational radiation of orbital angular momentum. Growing observational evidence against (i) is supported by recent theoretical work on the medium and long-term response of stellar radii to mass-loss (Eggleton, Faulkner and Webbink, in progress). Since (ii) is in most cases too slow a process, (iii) is left as the best surviving explanation.

Type
Part II: Stability and Collapse
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 64: Gravitational Radiation and Gravitational Collapse , 1974 , pp. 97
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974