SMC 3 is one of the most interesting symbiotic stars. This binary contains a bright K-type giant transferring mass to a massive white dwarf comanion, which makes it is a very promising SN Ia candidate. We discuss the evolutionary status of the system using results of population synthesis code.
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@article{arxiv.1512.03679,
title = {SMC3 as a test to the binary evolution},
author = {K. Ilkiewicz and J. Mikolajewska and K. Belczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03679},
year = {2015}
}
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Proceedings of Physics of Evolved Stars 2015: A Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Olivier Chesneau, Nice, 8-12 June 2015