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Photograph of Ross Church

Ross Church

Senior lecturer

Photograph of Ross Church

Interacting Compact Binaries: Modeling Mass Transfer in Eccentric Systems

Author

  • Ross Church
  • Melvyn B Davies
  • Alexey Bobrick
  • C. A. Tout

Summary, in English

We discuss mass transfer in eccentric binaries containing a white dwarf and a neutron star (WD-NS binaries). We show that such binaries are produced from field binaries following a series of mass transfer episodes that allow the white dwarf to form before the neutron star. We predict the orbital properties of binaries similar to the observed WD-NS binary J1141+6545, and show that they will undergo episodic mass transfer from the white dwarf to the neutron star. Furthermore, we describe oil-on-water, a two-phase SPH formalism that we have developed in order to model mass transfer in such binaries.

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Undergoing reorganization

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

175-178

Publication/Series

Advances in Computational Astrophysics: methods, tools, and outcomes

Volume

453

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Conference name

Conference on Advances in Computational Astrophysics - Methods, Tools, and Outcomes

Conference date

2011-06-13 - 2011-06-17

Conference place

Cefalu, Italy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-58381-788-9