3 papers
astro-ph2001
A New Evolutionary Picture for CVs and LMXBs II. The Impact of Thermal-Timescale Mass Transfer
Klaus Schenker, Andrew R. King
Depending on the outcome of pre-CV formation, mass transfer may set in under thermally unstable conditions in a significant number of systems. Full computations have shown that suc…
astro-ph2001
A New Evolutionary Picture for CVs and LMXBs
Andrew R. King, Klaus Schenker
We consider an alternative to the standard picture of CV and LMXB evolution, namely the idea that most CVs (and by extension LMXBs) may not yet have had time to evolve to their the…
astro-ph2000
Assisted stellar suicide: the wind-driven evolution of the recurrent nova T Pyxidis
C. Knigge, A. R. King, J. Patterson
We show that the extremely high luminosity of the short-period recurrent nova T Pyx in quiescence can be understood if this system is a wind-driven supersoft x-ray source (SSS). In…