Accretion phenomena in cataclysmic variables
Abstract
The processes of accretion onto the white dwarf in cataclysmic variables are reviewed. These systems provide the most easily observable examples of accretion disks, and enable the structure of the accretion region to be studied in detail. The properties of column accretion onto magnetic cataclysmic variables are also described.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- January 1996
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1996PASA...13...75B
- Keywords:
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- ACCRETION DISKS;
- BINARIES;
- MAGNETIC FIELDS