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Why not just a binary dwarf sucking material (somewhat chaotically) out of its more luminous twin?
by mckoss 10y ago
Why not just a binary dwarf sucking material (somewhat chaotically) out of its more luminous twin?
- simcop2387 10y agoWe'd see bits of time where the dwarf was in front of the twin and burning much much brighter, the accretion disk on the dwarf would be larger than the dwarf and giving off high energy photons as it consumes the incoming matter. We haven't seen any spikes in the light level, only dips. It's possible it's behind the other star still but I don't think we've seen anything else to indicate that.