Accretion geometry of synchronously rotating magnetic variables : theories versus observations.
Abstract
We review the magnetic locking of the white dwarf and the companion star in AM Herculis-type binaries for various white dwarf magnetic field structures, and compare the theoretical results with observations. The model in which the white dwarf has a dipole plus a quadrupole field is found to be in closest agreement with the recent observations.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- August 1994
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1994PASA...11..198W
- Keywords:
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- Cataclysmic Variables;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- Stellar Rotation;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Accretion Disks;
- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Magnetic Dipoles;
- Magnetic Stars;
- Astrophysics