Spectra of accretion discs around white dwarfs
Abstract
We present the spectra of accretion discs around white dwarfs calculated with an improved and updated version of Shaviv and Wehrse [Shaviv, G., Wehrse, R., 1991. A&A 251, 117] model. The new version includes line opacities and convective energy transport and can be used to calculate the spectra of hot discs in bright systems (nova-like variables or dwarf novae in outburst) as well as the spectra of cold accretion discs in quiescent dwarf novae.
- Publication:
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New Astronomy Reviews
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.newar.2008.03.004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0801.1051
- Bibcode:
- 2008NewAR..51..759I
- Keywords:
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- 97.10.Gz;
- 97.30.Qt;
- 97.80.Gm;
- Accretion and accretion disks;
- Novae dwarf novae recurrent novae and other cataclysmic variables;
- Cataclysmic binaries;
- symbiotic stars;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages. Talk presented at "Jean-Pierre Lasota, X-ray binaries, accretion disks and compact stars" (October 2007)