Magnetic Fields in Interacting Binaries
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2018-01-31 v1
Abstract
Wickramasinghe et al. (2014) and Briggs et al. (2015) have proposed that the strong magnetic fields observed in some single white dwarfs (MWDs) are formed by a dynamo driven by differential rotation when two stars, the more massive one with a degenerate core, merge during common envelope (CE) evolution (Ferrario et al., 2015b). We synthesize a population of binaries to investigate if fields in the magnetic cataclysmic variables (MCVs) may also originate during stellar interaction in the CE phase.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.10044,
title = {Magnetic Fields in Interacting Binaries},
author = {G. Briggs and Lilia Ferrario and C. A. Tout and D. T. Wickramasinghe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10044},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Contrib. Astron. Obs. Skalnate Pleso. Proceedings of the conference "Stars with a stable magnetic field: from pre-main sequence to compact remnants", Brno, 2017. Editors: E. Paunzen, M. Netopil, V. Petit