Results of the basic model. Left: evolution of the effective temperature (black) and core temperature (red) as function of time for our basic model. Right: evolution of the photon luminosity (blue) and neutrino luminosity (orange). All values are redshifted. Plotted are values at the end of the last of the 24 outburst that make up one sequence, at the last step of the quiescent period. The plot thus excludes the variations during outbursts and between the 24 different outbursts of one sequence. The grey band indicates how different the parameters would be if they were taken at the end of the quiescent period after one of the 23 other outbursts in the sequence.