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Binary white dwarfs in the halo of the Milky Way
Pim van Oirschot, Gijs Nelemans, Silvia Toonen +4
Aims: We study single and binary white dwarfs in the inner halo of the Milky Way in order to learn more about the conditions under which the population of halo stars was born, such…
astro-ph.HE2014
The influence of mass-transfer variability on the growth of white dwarfs, and the implications for supernova type Ia rates
Silvia Toonen, Rasmus Voss, Christian Knigge
White dwarfs (WDs) can increase their mass by accretion from companion stars, provided the mass-accretion rate is high enough to avoid nova eruptions. The accretion regimes that al…