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Towards Self-Consistent Spectral Models for Outbursting Discs in AM CVn Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2018

N. Nunn
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics, The Australian National University, Canberra
D. T. Wickramasinghe
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics, The Australian National University, Canberra
L. Ferrario
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics, The Australian National University, Canberra

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Models for AM CVn discs are usually constructed under the assumption of a steady state. Nevertheless, many of these systems have unstable discs. We have constructed models for the spectral evolution of such discs using a disc instability code (Cannizzo 1984) and detailed calculations of the vertical disc structure assuming hydrostatic equilibrium following El-Khoury and Wickramasinghe (2000).

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The Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Instituto de astronomia/revista mexicana de astronomίa y astrofίsica 2004

References

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El Khoury, W. & Wickramasinghe, D. T., 2000, A &A, 358, 154 Google Scholar