Magnetic Accreting White Dwarfs in the XMM-Newton Era
Abstract
Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (MCVs) are the brightest X-ray sources among accreting white dwarf binaries. They were recently found to constitute a non-negligible fraction of galactic hard (>20 keV) X-ray sources suggesting a still hidden but potentially important population. XMM-Newton allowed to identify the true nature of many new CV candidates, to infer unexpected X-ray properties and their link with fundamental parameters of the accreting primaries.
- Publication:
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X-ray Astronomy 2009; Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives
- Pub Date:
- July 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3475176
- Bibcode:
- 2010AIPC.1248..151D
- Keywords:
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- accretion disks;
- X-ray sources (astronomical);
- magnetic fields;
- white dwarfs;
- 98.62.Mw;
- 98.70.Qy;
- 95.85.Sz;
- 97.20.Rp;
- Infall accretion and accretion disks;
- X-ray sources;
- X-ray bursts;
- Gravitational radiation magnetic fields and other observations;
- Faint blue stars white dwarfs degenerate stars nuclei of planetary nebulae