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astro-ph.HE2012★ 98 cited
The Viscous Evolution of White Dwarf Merger Remnants
Josiah Schwab, Ken J. Shen, Eliot Quataert +2
The merger of two white dwarfs (WDs) creates a differentially rotating remnant which is unstable to magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. These instabilities can lead to viscous evolu…
astro-ph.HE2009★ 169 cited
Unstable Helium Shell Burning on Accreting White Dwarfs
Ken J. Shen, Lars Bildsten
AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries consist of a degenerate helium donor and a helium, C/O, or O/Ne WD accretor, with accretion rates of Mdot = 1e-13 - 1e-5 Msol/yr. For accreti…