Studying cataclysmic variables with the Hubble Space Telescope

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Sep 1992

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 104, no. 679, p. 780-786.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Accretion Disks, Cataclysmic Variables, Hubble Space Telescope, Ultraviolet Astronomy, White Dwarf Stars, Companion Stars, Globular Clusters

Scientific paper

The Hubble Space Telescope with its UV and imaging capabilities will allow new methods of investigating cataclysmic variables to be used. It provides the first opportunity to obtain high-time-resolution UV observations of cataclysmic variables, both spectroscopically and photometrically. Phase-resolved observations of eclipses can now be obtained which will allow the UV surface-brightness distributions in accretion disks to be studied. Eclipses of white dwarfs that were not visible in optical light will be detected in some systems. Other variations such as dips (in dwarf novae, intermediate polars, and polars), flickering, and oscillations can also be resolved for the first time in the UV. High-spatial-resolution, long-slit spectroscopy, and imaging with the FOC and WF/PC can be used to study the physical condition and morphology of ejected material around novae, recurrent novae, and precataclysmic variables. The UV and H-alpha imaging capabilities will also enable searches for cataclysmic variables in globular clusters to be carried out further into their cores than has been possible before.

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