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The population of black widow pulsars
A. R. King, M. E. Beer, D. J. Rolfe +2
We consider the population of black widow pulsars (BWPs). The large majority of these are members of globular clusters. For minimum companion masses < 0.1 Msun, adiabatic evolution…
A New Evolutionary Channel for Type Ia Supernovae
A. R. King, D. J. Rolfe, K. Schenker
We show that long-period dwarf novae offer a promising route for making Type Ia supernovae. For typical dwarf nova duty cycles d ~ 0.1 - 0.01, mass is accreted by the white dwarf m…
Thermal-timescale mass transfer and magnetic CVs
Klaus Schenker, Graham A. Wynn, Roland Speith
We investigate the spin evolution of the unusual magnetic CV AE Aqr. As a prototype for a potentially large population of CVs subject to a thermally unstable phase of mass transfer…
AE Aquarii: how CVs descend from supersoft binaries
K. Schenker, A. R. King, U. Kolb +2
AE Aquarii is a propeller system. It has the shortest spin period among cataclysmic variables, and this is increasing on a 10^7 yr timescale. Its UV spectrum shows very strong carb…
Blunting the Spike: the CV Minimum Period
A. R. King, K. Schenker, J. M. Hameury
The standard picture of CV secular evolution predicts a spike in the CV distribution near the observed short-period cutoff P_0 ~ 78 min, which is not observed. We show that an intr…
The UV line spectrum of the soft X-ray transient XTE J1118+480: a CNO processed core exposed
C. A. Haswell, R. I. Hynes, A. R. King +1
We compare UV spectra of the recent soft X-ray transients XTE J1118+480 and XTE J1859+226. The emission line strengths in XTE J1118+480 strongly suggest that the accreting material…