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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 16, 2011
Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a Total Eclipse of the Sun
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| Article Number | 06008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111606008 | |
| Published online | 18 July 2011 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111606008
Brown dwarfs in retrogradely precessing cataclysmic variables?
1 Department of Physics, UCF, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816, USA
2 Centro de Astrobioloiga (CAB-CSIC), Ctra. Ajalvir km 4, 28850 Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
a e-mail: montgomery@physics.ucf.edu
We compare Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations of retrogradely precessing accretion disks that have a white dwarf primary and a main sequence secondary with observational data and with theory on retrograde precession via tidal torques like those by the Moon and the Sun on the Earth [1, 2]. Assuming the primary does not accrete much of the mass lost from the secondary, we identify the theoretical low mass star/brown dwarf boundary. We find no observational candidates in our study that could qualify as brown dwarfs.
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