Predictions of the disc instability model
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Confronting the predictions of numerical calculations with observations is an important tool to progress with our understanding of the mechanism triggering the outbursts of dwarf novae and soft X-ray transients. Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations are of particular importance in this process as they contain information about the chronology of the outbursts as e.g. the famous UV-delay observed in dwarf novae. We review key-predictions of the disc instability model (DIM) and confront them with the corresponding observations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411228,
title = {Predictions of the disc instability model},
author = {M. R. Schreiber and J. -M. Hameury and J. -P. Lasota},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411228},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in The astrophysics of cataclysmic variables and related objects, ASP Conf. Ser., eds. J.-M. Hameury and J.-P. Lasota