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VW Hyi: A Rapidly Cooling White Dwarf?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Boris T. Gänsicke
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstr. 11, 31083 Göttingen, FRG
Klaus Beuermann
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstr. 11, 31083 Göttingen, FRG

Abstract

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We estimate the post-outburst cooling time-scale of the white dwarf in VW Hyi, using the available quiescent IUE spectra. The determination of the white-dwarf temperature close to the outburst is hampered because disc emission still contributes to the SWP flux.

Type
Space Observations
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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