Title

Brown Dwarfs In Retrogradely Precessing Cataclysmic Variables?

Abstract

We compare Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations of retrogradely precessing accretion disks that have a white dwarf primary and a main sequence secondary with observational data and with theory on retrograde precession via tidal torques like those by the Moon and the Sun on the Earth [1, 2]. Assuming the primary does not accrete much of the mass lost from the secondary, we identify the theoretical low mass star/brown dwarf boundary. We find no observational candidates in our study that could qualify as brown dwarfs.

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Publication Title

EPJ Web of Conferences

Volume

16

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111606008

Socpus ID

84921506220 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84921506220

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