Driven-disk model for binaries with precessing donor star. Three-dimensional simulations
Abstract
We present the results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of mass transfer in semi-detached binary with a donor star whose rotation vector precesses around the orbital rotation axis of the binary in the observer's coordinate frame. The calculations support our previous model of flow without a `hot spot'. Characteristic features of the flow in this model, such as the formation of an circumbinary envelope, the absence of a `hot spot' at the edge of the accretion disk, and the formation of a shock wave along the edge of the stream, are also present in the solution for a binary with precessing donor star. The parameters of accretion disk and of the structure of the near-disk regions recur with the precessional period of the rotation axis of donor star.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003377,
title = {Driven-disk model for binaries with precessing donor star. Three-dimensional simulations},
author = {D. V. Bisikalo and A. A. Boyarchuk and O. A. Kuznetsov and V. M. Chechetkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003377},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 10 pages