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==Locating the Photosphere of Stably Accreting White Dwarfs== | ==Locating the Photosphere of Stably Accreting White Dwarfs== | ||
At our regularly scheduled astrophysics group meeting on Monday, 2 May 2011, Juhan Frank and I started debating the answer to the following question: What should the photospheric radius be of the common envelope that surrounds a stably accreting, DWD binary? That is, does an accreting DWD binary that is destined to be an AM CVn system, look like a single bloated star? The various mathematical relations that we think are relevant to this question were sketched on the whiteboard in room 218 Johnston Hall (CCT). Here is a photo of that whiteboard discussion and derivation. | |||
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Locating the Photosphere of Stably Accreting White Dwarfs
At our regularly scheduled astrophysics group meeting on Monday, 2 May 2011, Juhan Frank and I started debating the answer to the following question: What should the photospheric radius be of the common envelope that surrounds a stably accreting, DWD binary? That is, does an accreting DWD binary that is destined to be an AM CVn system, look like a single bloated star? The various mathematical relations that we think are relevant to this question were sketched on the whiteboard in room 218 Johnston Hall (CCT). Here is a photo of that whiteboard discussion and derivation.
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