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To: King Prout

Here are a couple of links.

Mira, x-ray photo on the page:

http://www.astronet.ru:8104/db/xware/msg/1205472


And some diagrams, including a "contact" binary. We're both right. Not sure if the enveloped companion can be
a white dwarf, but could a white dwarf strip off a red giant's gas layer to leave two white dwarfs?

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/rbc/a1/lec16n.html


18 posted on 07/21/2006 9:04:13 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
thanks!

could a white dwarf strip off a red giant's gas layer to leave two white dwarfs?

dunno - I'm just an interested dilettante when it comes to stuff like this.

19 posted on 07/21/2006 9:11:35 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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