Magnetism in the polar BL Hydri.

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Sep 1995

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.301, p.447

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cataclysmic Variables, Stars: Bl Hyi, Stars: Magnetic Field, Radiation, Mechanisms: Non-Thermal

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We report on phase-resolved low-resolution spectrophotometry of the magnetic cataclysmic binary BL Hyi in low, intermediate, and high states of accretion. The cyclotron spectrum of the main accreting pole is red and displays no resolvable cyclotron lines, which is indicative of a low field strength in the accretion spot. This supposition is confirmed by the detection of halo Zeeman absorption in a field of only 12 MegaGauss (MG), one of the lowest values measured among the polars. The effective photospheric field of the white dwarf measured during a low state, B_eff_=~22MG is higher than in the accretion region which is usually assumed to lie in the vicinity of one of the magnetic poles. Thus deviations from a centered dipole field seem to be present. Numerical synthetization of white dwarf photospheric spectra shows that many of the observed features can be explained by a dipole-/quadrupole combination, with both constituents having approximately the same strength.

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