On the Possibility of Using Mid-Band Filters to Search for Polar Candidates

—This paper presents a method for searching for polar candidates using mid-band filters. One of the spectral features of polars is the HeII λ4686 strong emission line. We selected the Edmund Optics color filters with central wavelengths of 470, 540, and 656 nm and a transmission bandwidth of 10 nm. These filters cover the regions of the HeII λ4686 line, continuum, and the Hα line respectively. We constructed a color diagram based on the available spectra of polars and objects with a zero redshift from the SDSS archive. We show that most polars make a group with unique color indices. In practice, the method is implemented in SAO RAS at the Zeiss-1000 telescope with a new multi-mode photometer-polarimeter (MMPP). Approbation of the method with the known polars allowed us to develop two criteria to select candidates with an efficiency of up to 75%.