Time Dependent Accretion Flows in the AM Her Systems
Abstract
The author considers time dependent accretion onto white dwarfs with strong magnetic fields. For certain conditions this flow is unstable and leads to large periodic variations in the hard X-ray luminosity. If the magnetic field is large enough, electron cyclotron radiation will stabilize the flow. The author also discusses the probable observational appearance of the oscillations found in his calculations.
- Publication:
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Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-94-009-5319-2_27
- Bibcode:
- 1985ASSL..113..257L
- Keywords:
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- Cataclysmic Variables;
- Magnetic Stars;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- X Ray Binaries;
- X Ray Spectra;
- Radiant Cooling;
- Shock Waves;
- Stellar Models;
- Thermal Instability;
- Time Dependence;
- Astrophysics