Supersoft X-ray sources as transient phases of cataclysmic variable evolution
Cataclysmic binaries first reaching mass transfer with marginally stable mass ratios can achieve mass transfer rates high enough to sustain stable hydrogen burning and become supersoft X-ray sources. Such systems are concentrated in orbital period just above the period gap, and can, in the most favo...
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2001
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