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Irradiation-Driven Mass Transfer in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Philipp Podsiadlowski
Philipp Podsiadlowski*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K.

Abstract

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External irradiation can completely alter the internal structure of the secondary in a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB). For radiation fluxes as are typically found in LMXBs, the secondary expands by a factor of 2 to 3 in order to relax towards a new state of thermal equilibrium. This relaxation process provides a new mass-transfer driving mechanism for LMXBs, which can drastically alter the evolution of these systems.

Type
Oral and Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 151: Evolutionary Processes in Interacting Binary Stars , 1992 , pp. 457 - 460
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

References

Podsiadlowski, Ph. (1991), Nature 350, 654.Google Scholar