Rs ophiuchi: thermonuclear explosion or disc instability?

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Mon. Not. R. Astron. and colleagues from the Institute Astrophysics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester , RH have published the paper: RS Ophiuchi: thermonuclear explosion or disc instability?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors propose instead that the outbursts are driven by gravitational accretion energy, so that the system is actually a dwarf nova with unusual properties which all stem from the fact that its accretion disc is far larger in size than in normal dwarf novae.

SUMMARY

    The nuclear energy yield from the hydrogen-rich matter considerably exceeds its . . .

     

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