Brown dwarfs in retrogradely precessing cataclysmic variables?

We compare Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations of retrogradely precessing accretion disks that have a white dwarf primary and a main sequence secondary with observational data and with theory on retrograde precession via tidal torques like those by the Moon and the Sun on the Earth [1, 2]. As...

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Veröffentlicht in:EPJ Web of conferences 2011-01, Vol.16, p.6008
Hauptverfasser: Montgomery, M.M., Martin, E.L., Deshpande, R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We compare Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations of retrogradely precessing accretion disks that have a white dwarf primary and a main sequence secondary with observational data and with theory on retrograde precession via tidal torques like those by the Moon and the Sun on the Earth [1, 2]. Assuming the primary does not accrete much of the mass lost from the secondary, we identify the theoretical low mass star/brown dwarf boundary. We find no observational candidates in our study that could qualify as brown dwarfs.
ISSN:2100-014X
2100-014X
DOI:10.1051/epjconf/20111606008