AM Herculis

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2391s&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2391. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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AM Herculis (AM Her) is the prototype and brightest of a class of short-period CATACLYSMIC BINARIES (CB) in which a strongly magnetic WHITE DWARF accretes gas from a Roche-lobe filling sub-solar mass companion. The magnetic field is sufficiently strong (B1#|gtrsim|#20 MG; MG=106 gauss) to affect qualitatively the most fundamental characteristics of the binary: preventing the formation of an accr...

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