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astro-ph2001
Disks surrounding Cataclysmic Binaries
H. C. Spruit, R. E. Taam
Observations of Cataclysmic Variables show a number of phenomena that do not fit easily into the standard magnetic braking scenario. These include the large spread in mass transfer…
astro-ph2001
Correlated msec X-ray and optical emission from XTE J1118+480
G. Kanbach, C. Straubmeier, H. C. Spruit +1
We report on fast (msec) simultaneous observations in X-rays and optical light of the black hole candidate XTE J1118+480, showing correlation on time scales from 20msec to several…
astro-ph2001
Common-Envelope Evolution: the Nucleosynthesis in Mergers of Massive Stars
N. Ivanova, Ph. Podsiadlowski, H. Spruit
We study the merging of massive stars inside a common envelope for binary systems consisting of a red supergiant with a mass of 15-20 Msun and a main-sequence companion of 1-5 Msun…