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He3 as the Recurrent Nova Trigger Mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M.M. Shara
M.M. Shara*
Affiliation:
Dept. de Physique, Université de Montreal

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Observations of recurrent novae (Warner 1976) imply the presence of a red giant (RG) in most, if not all, cases. Giant secondaries in nova systems are otherwise known or suspected only in the peculiar slow novae RR Tel and RT Ser. Bath and Shaviv (1978) showed quantitatively that only a red giant can transfer enough hydrogen-rich mass (~10-5M⊙) to a white dwarf (WD) companion rapidly enough (in ∽30 years) to yield a recurrent nova.

Type
Abstracts of Workshop Papers on Novae
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 526
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

References

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