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Radiation Hydrodynamics and Soft X-Ray Emission of Accreting Magnetic White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K. Beuermann ,
A. Fischer  and
Th. Rousseau
K. Beuermann
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstraβe 11, Göttingen, Germany
A. Fischer
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstraβe 11, Göttingen, Germany
Th. Rousseau
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstraβe 11, Göttingen, Germany

Abstract

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Observed cyclotron spectra of AM Herculis binaries imply a large range of mass flow rates in the accretion spot on the white dwarf. We derive this ṁ–distribution for the case of UZ For. For AM Her stars with different field strength B, such a distribution is shifted in ṁ proportional to B. This fact can account for the observed dominance of bremsstrahlung at low B and of quasi-blackbody emission at high B values.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 689
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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