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Photometry of AM Her Stars – Line and Continuum Emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Paula Szkody
Paula Szkody*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington

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The 4 known AM Her stars or polars (AM Her, ANUMa, W Pup, and 2A0311-227) are characterized by large circular polarizations of 10-35%, (Tapia 1977a, b, Krzeminski and Serkowski 1977), an emission line spectrum with strong H and He lines (Crampton and Cowley 1977, Greenstein et al. 1977), complex photometric variations (Szkody 1978, Priedhorsky and Krzeminski 1978, Warner & Nather 1972), long term high and low states and short orbital periods (80-180 min.). Models of these systems envision a close binary containing a magnetic white dwarf primary (B ~ 108G) and late type main sequence secondary transferring material into an accretion funnel over one or both poles of the white dwarf (Stockman et al. 1977, Lamb & Masters 1979, Liebert et al. 1978).

Type
Colloquium Session V
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 324 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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