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Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) from oxygen/neon/magnesium composition white dwarf (ONeMg WD) + stripped helium (He) star binaries is one promising channel to form peculiar neutron star objects. It has been discussed that the WD's magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Iminhaji Ablimit

Recently, extra motivation has been given to the investigations of an unresolved problem of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) produced by the recycling process, as an apparent role of the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) in white dwarfs (WDs) was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Ali Taani

White dwarfs (WDs) embedded in gaseous disks of active galactic nucleus (AGNs) can rapidly accrete materials from the disks and grow in mass to reach or even exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. Binary WD (BWD) mergers are also believed to occur…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Jin-Ping Zhu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , Liang-Duan Liu , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao

Redbacks (RBs) and black widows (BWs) are two peculiar classes of eclipsing millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of an oxygen/neon/magnesium composition white dwarf to a neutron star has been suggested as one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-18 Iminhaji Ablimit

The current status of the problem of whether neutron stars can form, in close binary systems, by accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of white dwarfs is examined. We find that, in principle, both initially cold C+O white dwarfs in the high-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 R. Canal , J. Gutierrez

The influence of the magnetic field on process of the accretion onto White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) is discussed. Except for the Polars or AM Her objects, the strength of magnetic field can not be measured directly in CVs by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. H. Tovmassian

Accreting white dwarfs are often found in close binary systems with orbital periods ranging from tens of minutes to several hours. In most cases, the accretion process is relatively steady, with significant modulations only occurring on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 S. Scaringi , D. de Martino , D. H. Buckley , P. J. Groot , C. Knigge , M. Fratta , K. Ilkiewicz , C. Littlefield , A. Papitto

We investigate some physical characteristics of Millisecond Pulsar (MSP) such as magnetic fields, spin periods and masses, that are produced by Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of an accreting white dwarf (WD) in stellar binary systems. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ali Taani , ChengMin Zhang , Mashhoor Al-Wardat , YongHeng Zhao

Volatiles, notably water, are key to the habitability of rocky planets. The presence of water in planetary material can be inferred from the atmospheric oxygen abundances of polluted white dwarfs, but this interpretation is often complex.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Marc G. Brouwers , Andrew M. Buchan , Amy Bonsor , Uri Malamud , Elliot Lynch Laura Rogers , Detlev Koester

The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of a rotating white dwarf (WD) offers a potential site of millisecond pulsars/magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, and r-process nucleosynthesis. We present three-dimensional general-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

We present a study of the observational properties of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) by way of their magnetic fields, spin periods and masses. These measurements are derived through the scenario of Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Taani , Y. H. Zhao , A. Moraghan

Polluted white dwarfs serve as astrophysical mass spectrometers - their photospheric abundances are used to infer the composition of planetary objects that accrete onto them. We show that due to asymmetries in the accretion process, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Marc G. Brouwers , Amy Bonsor , Uri Malamud

Accreting white dwarfs (AWDs) are among the best natural laboratories for understanding disk accretion. Their proximity, brightness, and purely classical nature make them ideal systems in which to probe the fundamental physics that governs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Simone Scaringi , Christian Knigge , Domitilla de Martino

This paper investigates the progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) with a distribution of long orbital periods (P_orb > 2 d), to show the link between white dwarf (WD) binaries and long orbits for some binary MSPs through the Accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-04 Ali Taani , Awni Khasawneh

We present 2D multi-group flux-limited diffusion magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the Accretion-Induced Collapse (AIC) of a rapidly-rotating white dwarf. We focus on the dynamical role of MHD processes after the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Eli Livne , Christian Ott

It has been suggested that the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of an oxygen-neon white dwarf (ONe WD) to a neutron star is a theoretically predicted outcome in stellar evolution, likely relating to the formation of some neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-13 Bo Wang

It has been proposed that accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of massive white dwarfs (WDs) is an indispensable path for the formation of neutron star (NS) binaries. Although there are still no direct evidence for the existence of AIC events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Dongdong Liu , Bo Wang

A non negligible fraction of white dwarf stars show the presence of heavy elements in their atmospheres. The most accepted explanation for this contamination is the accretion of material coming from tidally disrupted planetesimals, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 F. C. Wachlin , G. Vauclair , S. Vauclair , L. G. Althaus

Although supernovae is a well-known endpoint of an accreting white dwarf, alternative theoretical possibilities has been discussing broadly, such as the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) event as the endpoint of oxygen-neon (ONe) white…

More than 30% of white dwarfs exhibit atmospheric metals, which are understood to be from recent or ongoing accretion of circumstellar debris. In cool white dwarfs, surface motions should rapidly homogenise photospheric abundances, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 S. Bagnulo , J. D. Landstreet , J. Farihi , C. P. Folsom , M. A. Hollands , L. Fossati