Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nmvwc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-07T21:11:10.231Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Period Problem of the Interacting Binary White Dwarf System AM CVn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.-E. Solheim
J.-E. Solheim*
Affiliation:
University of Tromsø, Institute of Mathematical and Physical SciencesTromsø, Norway

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A short review is given of the searches for an orbital period of this (believed to be) interacting binary white dwarf system. Today, 3 or 4 periods are known. A polar ring accretion model is proposed to explain the observations – at least partly.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 114: White Dwarfs , 1989 , pp. 446 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

References

Faulkner, J., Flannery, B., and Warner, B.: 1972, Astrophys. J. 175, L79.Google Scholar
Kepler, S.O.: 1984 (private communication).Google Scholar
Krisher, T.P.: 1985 (preprint).Google Scholar
Lazaro, C., Solheim, J.-E., and Arevalo, M.J.: 1988, IAU coll. #114.Google Scholar
Nather, R.E.: 1988, IAU coll. # 114.Google Scholar
Patterson, J., Nather, R.E., Robinson, E.L., and Handier, F.: 1979, Astrophys. J. 222, 819.Google Scholar
Robinson, E.L. and Faulkner, J.: 1975, Astrophys. J. 200, 23.Google Scholar
Smak, J.: 1967, Acta Astron. 17, 255.Google Scholar
Solheim, J.-E., Robinson, E.L., Nather, R.E., and Kepler, S.O.: 1984, Astron. Astrophys. 135, 1.Google Scholar
Solheim, J.-E. and Kjeldseth-Moe, O.: 1987, Astrophys. Space Sci. 131, 785.Google Scholar
Voikhanskaya, N.F.: 1982, Sov. Astron. 26, 558.Google Scholar