Accreting White Dwarfs: An Unreview
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| author | Scaringi, Simone Knigge, Christian de Martino, Domitilla |
| author_facet | Scaringi, Simone Knigge, Christian de Martino, Domitilla |
| contents | Accreting white dwarfs (AWDs) are among the best natural laboratories for understanding disk accretion. Their proximity, brightness, and purely classical nature make them ideal systems in which to probe the fundamental physics that governs the transport of angular momentum, the generation of outflows, and the coupling between disks, magnetospheres, and accretors. Yet despite decades of study, many critical questions remain unresolved. In this ``unreview'', we therefore focus not on what is known, but on what is unknown. What drives viscosity and sustains accretion in largely neutral disks? How are powerful winds launched, and how do they feed back on the disk and binary evolution? Why do so many systems show persistent retrograde precession, and what drives bursts in magnetic AWDs? By identifying these open problems -- and suggesting ways to resolve them -- we aim to motivate new observational, numerical, and theoretical efforts that will advance our understanding of accretion physics across all mass scales, from white dwarfs to black holes. |
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| spellingShingle | Accreting White Dwarfs: An Unreview Scaringi, Simone Knigge, Christian de Martino, Domitilla High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Accreting white dwarfs (AWDs) are among the best natural laboratories for understanding disk accretion. Their proximity, brightness, and purely classical nature make them ideal systems in which to probe the fundamental physics that governs the transport of angular momentum, the generation of outflows, and the coupling between disks, magnetospheres, and accretors. Yet despite decades of study, many critical questions remain unresolved. In this ``unreview'', we therefore focus not on what is known, but on what is unknown. What drives viscosity and sustains accretion in largely neutral disks? How are powerful winds launched, and how do they feed back on the disk and binary evolution? Why do so many systems show persistent retrograde precession, and what drives bursts in magnetic AWDs? By identifying these open problems -- and suggesting ways to resolve them -- we aim to motivate new observational, numerical, and theoretical efforts that will advance our understanding of accretion physics across all mass scales, from white dwarfs to black holes. |
| title | Accreting White Dwarfs: An Unreview |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10150 |