http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02415
We present a preliminary comparison of the post-nova population with that of general cataclysmic variables (CVs). We particularly focus on the mass-transfer rate and its potential relation to the nova eruption. We find that the known post-nova sample exclusively consists of high mass-transfer CVs, but that this is more likely to be due to the shorter recurrent time for those systems, rather than the mass-transfer rate being affected by the eruption. Nevertheless, we find evidence for such an effect for specific post-novae, and that it is potentially related to the binary separation and to presence or absence of an accretion disc.
C. Tappert, I. Fuentes-Morales, E. Puebla, et. al.
Thu, 9 Feb 17
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Comments: Proceedings of a talk given at the conference on “The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects III”, Palermo, Italy, Sep 7-12, 2015; written Dec 2015 and now gone through a belated referee process; 9 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Proceedings of Science (pos.sissa.it)