Some updates on the role of Magnetic Fields in Cataclysmic Variables
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In this review talk I cover some recent developments in understanding the role that magnetic fields play in cataclysmic variables. I discuss the recent DNO--QPO unification models; the disk--magnetosphere boundary; some issues concerning the soft blackbody component and the nature of the X-ray spectra in MCVs; whether the SW Sex stars are magnetic, and finally I mention the weird behavior of FS Aur and HS2331+3905.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402103,
title = {Some updates on the role of Magnetic Fields in Cataclysmic Variables},
author = {Coel Hellier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402103},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in ``Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond'', RevMexAA