Hard X-ray cataclysmic variables
Abstract
Among hard X-ray Galactic sources detected with the Swift and INTEGRAL surveys, those discovered as accreting white dwarf binaries have surprisingly boosted in number in the recent years. The majority are identified as magnetic Cataclysmic Variables of the Intermediate Polar type, suggesting this subclass as an important constituent of the Galactic population of X-ray sources. We here review and discuss the X-ray emission properties of newly discovered sources in the framework of an identification programme with the XMM-Newton satellite that increased the sample of this subclass by a factor of two.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- September 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.asr.2019.09.006
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1909.06306
- Bibcode:
- 2020AdSpR..66.1209D
- Keywords:
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- X-Rays: binaries;
- Stars: cataclysmic variables;
- Accretion;
- Accretion discs;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research. 20 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
