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Paper: Interacting Compact Binaries: Modeling Mass Transfer in Eccentric Systems
Volume: 453, Advances in Computational Astrophysics: Methods, Tools, and Outcome
Page: 175
Authors: Church, R. P.; Davies, M. B.; Bobrick, A.; Tout, C. A.
Abstract: We discuss mass transfer in eccentric binaries containing a white dwarf and a neutron star (WD–NS binaries). We show that such binaries are produced from field binaries following a series of mass transfer episodes that allow the white dwarf to form before the neutron star. We predict the orbital properties of binaries similar to the observed WD–NS binary J1141+6545, and show that they will undergo episodic mass transfer from the white dwarf to the neutron star. Furthermore, we describe oil-on-water, a two-phase SPH formalism that we have developed in order to model mass transfer in such binaries.
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