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Bauer, Evan B.; Bildsten, Lars; Schwab, Josiah, E-mail: ebauer@ucsb.edu2017
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[en] White dwarfs (WDs) that accrete helium at rates , such as those in close binaries with sdB stars, can accumulate large () helium envelopes, which are likely to detonate. We perform binary stellar evolution calculations of sdB+WD binary systems with
MESA
, incorporating the important reaction chain (NCO), including a recent measurement for the rate. In large accreted helium shells, the NCO reaction chain leads to ignitions at the dense base of the freshly accreted envelope, in contrast to ignitions, which occur away from the base of the shell. In addition, at these accretion rates, the shells accumulate on a timescale comparable to their thermal time, leading to an enhanced sensitivity of the outcome on the accretion rate history. Hence, time dependent accretion rates from binary stellar evolution are necessary to determine the helium layer mass at ignition. We model the observed sdB+WD system CD and find that the inclusion of these effects predicts ignition of a helium shell, nearly a factor of two larger than previous predictions. A shell with this mass will ignite dynamically, a necessary condition for a helium shell detonation.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7ffa; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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ABUNDANCE, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BINARY STARS, CAPTURE, CARBON ISOTOPES, CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS, DWARF STARS, ELEMENTS, ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS, EVALUATION, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, EVOLUTION, FLUIDS, GASES, ISOTOPES, LEPTON REACTIONS, LIGHT NUCLEI, NITROGEN ISOTOPES, NONMETALS, NUCLEAR REACTIONS, NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, RADIOISOTOPES, RARE GASES, STABLE ISOTOPES, STARS, SYNTHESIS, VARIABLE STARS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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