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SS 433 – The Ultimate Cataclysmic Variable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

John Faulkner ,
Ronald L. Gilliland  and
Edward Kemper
John Faulkner
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronald L. Gilliland
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Edward Kemper
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Several authors (Begelman et al. 1979; Martin and Rees 1979; Bandwagon 1979) suggest that the precessing relativistic gas jets observed in SS 433 (Abell and Margon 1979) arise from de Sitter and/or Lense-Thirring precession of one member of a close binary system. For a semi-detached system of a few solar masses, we find the mean density of the lobe-filling secondary, ρ̄2 ∽ 3 × 104 gm cm-3. The secondary may thus be a low mass white dwarf, transferring material to the vicinity of its companion at a supercritical rate because of gravitational radiation losses.

Type
Abstracts of Workshop Papers on Dwarf Novae
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 496
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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