Theoretical orbital period distributions of cataclysmic variables above the period gap: Effects of circumbinary disks

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 657, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 465-481

  Willems, Bart ^a   Taam, Ronald E ^a,b   Kolb, Ulrich ^c   Dubus, Guillaume ^d,e   Sandquist, Eric L ^f  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^e INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^f SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Methods: statistical; Novae, cataclysmic variables; Stars: evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947527325     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510479     Document Type: Article

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