Fig. 4.
Results of our simulations for |$\dot{M}_{\rm tr} = 10^{16.9}\:$|g s−1, αhot = 0.15, αcool/αhot = 0.1, and rin = 5 × 108 cm. From top to bottom: the light curve for the bolometric luminosity of the system, that for the V-band magnitude, the disk radius in units of the binary separation, the total disk mass, and the total disk angular momentum. The blue line in the top panel approximately represents the expected X-ray flux in quiescence where rin = rWD. The green and orange lines in the second panel represent the V-band magnitude of the disk and the bright spot, respectively. The black line in the same panel stands for a sum of the flux from these two components plus the WD and the secondary star.