Probing Magnetism in CVs with the SALT

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010vsgh.conf...91b&link_type=abstract

Variable Stars, the Galactic halo and Galaxy Formation, Proceedings of an international conference held in Zvenigorod, Russia, 1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), and its first generation instrument suite, have unprecedented capabilities for high signal-to-noise and time resolved studies of CVs, including high-speed photometry, spectroscopy, polarimetry and spectropolarimetry. Magnetic CVs, including polars and intermediate polars, are an important class of low luminosity X-ray sources whose study will benefit from such observations by SALT. This paper discusses these possibilities and high-lights some initial results. Emphasis is given to the prospects of polarimetric observations which will lead to a better understanding of the influence of magnetic fields on accretion.

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