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Origin of Very-Short Orbital-Period Binary Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Shigeki Miyaji
Shigeki Miyaji*
Affiliation:
Department of Natural History, College of Arts and Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260, Japan

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Recent observations of four close binaries have established that there is a group of very-short orbital-period (VSOP) binaries whose orbital periods are less than 60 minutes. The VSOP binaries consist of both x-ray close binaries (4U1626-67; Middleditch et al. 1981 and 4U1916 -0.5; White and Swank 1982) and cataclysmic variables (AM CVn; Faulkner et al. 1972 and G61-29; Nather et al. 1981). Their orbital periods are too short to have a main-sequence companion. However, four binaries, none of them belongs to any globular cluster, are too abundant to be explained by capturing mechanism of a white dwarf. Therefore it seemed to be worth to present an evolutionary scenario from an original binary system which can be applied for all of VSOP binaries.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 72: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1983 , pp. 263 - 267
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Copyright © Reidel 1983

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