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| Paper: |
Interacting Compact Binaries: Modeling Mass Transfer in Eccentric
Systems |
| Volume: |
453, Advances in Computational Astrophysics: Methods, Tools, and Outcome |
| Page: |
175 |
| Authors: |
Church, R. P.; Davies, M. B.; Bobrick, A.; Tout, C. A. |
| Abstract: |
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. |
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