The effect of magnetic field spread and temperature and density variations in cyclotron emission regions.
Abstract
The properties of cyclon radiation from accretion shocks located above the atmospheres of magnetic white dwarfs, taking into account the effects of field spread and density and temperature structure. The models have characteristics which agree with the properties of AM Herculis type systems. Our calculations of the polarization properties of large polar cap emission regions are used to discuss the recent null measurements of circular polarization in DQ Herculis type systems.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1323358000022050
- Bibcode:
- 1987PASA....7..123W
- Keywords:
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- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Magnetic Stars;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Temperature;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Circular Polarization;
- High Temperature Plasmas;
- Stellar Models;
- Astrophysics