Magnetic braking and its implication for CV evolution
Abstract
We review the magnetic braking models for synchronously rotating magnetic cataclysmic variables and discuss its implications for orbital evolution and the upper limit to the magnetic fields (about 70 MG) of the observed AM Herculis systems.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- January 1996
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1996PASA...13...81W
- Keywords:
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- BINARIES;
- MAGNETIC FIELDS;
- CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES