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AM Herculis Binaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
AM Herculis binaries contain mass accreting magnetic white dwarfs which appear as bright X-ray sources in the ROSAT All Sky Survey. About 52 systems are presently known which allow detailed studies of the evolution of magnetic close binaries and of fundamental plasma-physical processes in the accretion region on the white dwarf.
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- 7 Cataclysmic Variables
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 165: Compact Stars in Binaries , 1996 , pp. 403 - 414
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996
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