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Predictions of the disc instability model

M. R. Schreiber, J. -M. Hameury, J. -P. Lasota

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0411228

Abstract

Confronting the predictions of numerical calculations with observations is an important tool to progress with our understanding of the mechanism triggering the outbursts of dwarf novae and soft X-ray transients. Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations are of particular importance in this process as they contain information about the chronology of the outbursts as e.g. the famous UV-delay observed in dwarf novae. We review key-predictions of the disc instability model (DIM) and confront them with the corresponding observations.

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