Serbian Astronomical Journal (Jan 2012)

Maximum mass ratio of am CVn-type binary systems and maximum white dwarf mass in ultra-compact x-ray binaries (addendum - Serb. Astron. J. No. 183 (2011), 63)

  • Arbutina B.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ1284105A
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2012, no. 184
pp. 105 – 107

Abstract

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We recalculated the maximum white dwarf mass in ultra-compact X-ray binaries obtained in an earlier paper (Arbutina 2011), by taking the effects of super-Eddington accretion rate on the stability of mass transfer into account. It is found that, although the value formally remains the same (under the assumed approximations), for white dwarf masses M2 >~0.1MCh mass ratios are extremely low, implying that the result for Mmax is likely to have little if any practical relevance.

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