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Possible Role of the White Dwarf in Grain Formation in Cataclysmic Variable Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.S. Albinson  and
A. Evans
J.S. Albinson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, U.K.
A. Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, U.K.

Abstract

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We consider the possibility that carbon, in the form of the allotrope carbyne, might form in the atmosphere of the white dwarf in a cataclysmic variable system, and be expelled from the system by radiation pressure. It seems that, under some circumstances, cataclysmic variable systems may indeed have carbon dust in their vicinity.

Type
V. Nova and Dwarf Nova Outbursts
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 93: Cataclysmic Variables: Recent Multi-Frequency Observations and Theoretical Developments , 1987 , pp. 443 - 447
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987

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