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On the Masses of the White Dwarfs in Classical Nova Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

James W. Truran  and
Mario Livio
James W. Truran
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Mario Livio
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Technion

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Significant progress in our understanding of the nature of the outbursts of the classical novae has occurred over the past two decades (see, e.g., reviews by Truran 1982; Starrfield 1986). Their outbursts are now understood to be driven by thermonuclear runaways proceeding in the accreted hydrogen-rich shells on the white dwarf components of close binary systems. Critical parameters which serve to dictate the varied characteristics of the observed outbursts include the intrinsic white dwarf luminosity, the rate of mass accretion, the composition of the envelope matter prior to runaway, and the white dwarf mass.

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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 114: White Dwarfs , 1989 , pp. 498 - 506
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Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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