Polars: accretion onto magnetic white dwarfs.

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Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996rftu.proc..107b&link_type=abstract

International Conference on X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics: Röntgenstrahlung from the Universe, p. 107 - 110

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Am Herculis Stars: X-Ray Sources, Am Herculis Stars: White Dwarfs

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The identification of ≡30 new bright soft RASS X-ray sources as polars (AM Her binaries) has greatly increased the knowledge of this subclass of cataclysmic variables (CVs). Follow-up studies yielded orbital periods, distances, accretion rates, and magnetic field strengths. In several systems, the structure of the surface field deviates substantially from that of a centered dipole. These observations have led to an improved understanding of the evolution of magnetic CVs and of the physics of accretion onto the magnetic white dwarf.

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