New Insights into Classical Novae: Supplemental Video 1

A supplemental video from the 2021 review by Laura Chomiuk, Brian D. Metzger, and Ken J. Shen, "New Insights into Classical Novae," from the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-astro-112420-114502?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=aa.chomiuk&utm_campaign=suppvideo
Shown: Radiative shock fronts have corrugated and clumpy structure, due to thermal and thin-shell instabilities. This animation shows the complex density structure of the dual shocks created by a head-on collision of two flows (from the left and right, entering with 500 km/s corresponding to a Mach number M = 36 for the adopted temperature floor of 104 K). The colorscale tracks the log of density in units of g/cm3. This animation is from the simulations of Steinberg & Metzger (2018).

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#thermonuclear_explosions #white_dwarf_stars #cataclysmic_variable_stars #(radiative)_shocks #relativistic_particle_acceleration #gamma_rays

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