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Star-Planet Systems and Their Relation to Low Mass Cataclysmic Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Mario Livio
Mario Livio*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

Abstract

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We investigate the possibility of forming a low mass cataclysmic binary from a star-planet system. Using certain simplifying assumptions it is shown that an analytic solution for the evolution of the separation can be obtained. The fate of the system is determined by the competition between mass loss and accretion drag. While it is found that some fine tuning is required for the formation of a close binary, such a binary can still be formed, for parameters that are not too exotic.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 72: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1983 , pp. 269 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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