2 papers
astro-ph2005
Mergers of close primordial binaries
N. Andronov, M. H. Pinsonneault, D. M. Terndrup
We study the production of main sequence mergers of tidally-synchronized primordial short-period binaries. The principal ingredients of our calculation are the angular momentum los…
astro-ph2004
Stellar models of evolved secondaries in CVs
N. Andronov, M. H. Pinsonneault
In this paper we study the impact of chemically evolved secondaries on CV evolution. We find that when evolved secondaries are included a spread in the secondary mass-orbital perio…