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A standard scenario for the evolutionary origin of cataclysmic binaries is presented. In this scenario the initial periods of the ancestor binaries was between a few months and a few years, and the initial mass ratio was very different from unity. The period was reduced, and a lot of mass and angular momentum was lost during the common envelope phase of evolution. If this scenario is correct then there should be a lot of short period binaries made of pairs of white dwarfs, which were produced by the systems with initial mass ratios close to unity. About 10% of all “single” white dwarfs could be short period binaries, or could have passed through such a phase sometime in the past. Such binaries should evolve due to angular momentum losses caused by gravitational radiation and could produce R CrB stars, AM CVn cataclysmic binaries, DB white dwarfs, and Type I Supernovae. Inconsistencies in the standard evolutionary scenario are discussed. It is possible that a binary nature of a star is the necessary condition for a formation of a high surface brightness planetary nebula.
On leave from N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
A long-term member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Paczynski, B. (1985). Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries. In: Lamb, D.Q., Patterson, J. (eds) Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5319-2_1
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