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Possible role of the white dwarf in grain formation in cataclysmic variable systems

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We consider the possibility that carbon, in the form of the allotrope carbyne, might form in the atmosphere of the white dwarf in a cataclysmic variable system, and be expelled from the system by radiation pressure. It seems that, under some circumstances, cataclysmic variable systems may indeed have carbon dust in their vicinity.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, UK

    J. S. Albinson & A. Evans

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Albinson, J.S., Evans, A. Possible role of the white dwarf in grain formation in cataclysmic variable systems. Astrophys Space Sci 131, 443–447 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668123

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