Accreting white dwarfs as supersoft X-ra
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M. Kato
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract I review various phenomena associated with mass‐accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in the view of supersoft X‐ray sources. When the mass‐accretion rate is low (__Ṁ__~acc~ < a few × 10^–7^ M⊙yr^–1^), hydrogen nuclear burning is unstable and nova outbursts occur. A nova is a transient supersoft