FUSE Observations of Active Binaries
Abstract
FUSE observations have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the physical properties and behavior of active binary systems, including cataclysmic variables (CVs) and X-ray binaries (XRBs). FUSE data have allowed observers to study: accretion disks, magnetically-channeled accretion flow, and white dwarf accretors, and how these respond to accretion fluctuations and disk outbursts; the role of binary evolution in determining system properties; the vertical and azimuthal structure in disks and disk winds; and what the variations in active binary properties reveal about accretion physics in compact systems. Results of FUSE observations of active binaries are reviewed here.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0410201,
title = {FUSE Observations of Active Binaries},
author = {C. S. Froning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0410201},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, to appear in Astrophysics in the Far Ultraviolet: Five Years of Discovery With FUSE, ASP Conf Series, eds. G. Sonneborn, W. Moos & B.-G. Andersson