Recent Activity in Two Symbiotic Stars

Volume 15 number 2 (1986)

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Scott J. Kenyon
Smithsonian Astrophysical

Abstract

Two mechanisms, accretion events and thermonuclear runaways, have been proposed to account for the eruptions of symbiotic binaries. Recent observations of CH Cygni and RS Ophiuchi demonstrate the difficulties in applying either model to the data.