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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 660, 期 2, 页码 1444-1450出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/513457
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accretion, accretion disks; binaries : close; instabilities; novae, cataclysmic variables; nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; white dwarfs
One of the challenges to increasing the mass of a white dwarf through accretion is the tendency for the accumulating hydrogen to ignite unstably and potentially trigger mass loss. It has been known for many years that there is a narrow range of accretion rates for which the hydrogen can burn stably, allowing for the white dwarf mass to increase as a pure helium layer accumulates. We first review the physics of stable burning, providing a clear explanation for why radiation pressure stabilization leads to a narrow range of accretion rates for stable burning near the Eddington limit, confirming the recent work of Nomoto and collaborators. We also explore the possibility of stabilization due to a high luminosity from beneath the burning layer. We then examine the impact of the beta-decay-limited hot'' CNO cycle on the stability of burning. Although this plays a significant role for accreting neutron stars, we find that for accreting white dwarfs, it can only increase the range of stably burning accretion rates for metallicities < 0.01 Z (circle dot).
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