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| Paper: |
On Thermohaline Mixing in Accreting White Dwarfs |
| Volume: |
493, 19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs |
| Page: |
129 |
| Authors: |
Koester, D. |
| Abstract: |
We discuss the recent claim that the thermohaline (“fingering”)
instability is important in accreting white dwarfs, increasing the
derived accretion fluxes potentially by orders of magnitude. We present an
alternative view and conclude that at least in the steady state this
is not the case and the current method of estimating accretion fluxes
is correct. |
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