The origin of magnetic fields in isolated and binary white dwarfs has been investigated in a series of recent papers. One proposal is that magnetic fields are generated through an alpha-omega dynamo during common envelope evolution. Here we present population synthesis calculations showing that this hypothesis is supported by observations of magnetic binaries.
@article{arxiv.1810.06148,
title = {The Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables},
author = {Gordon Briggs and Lilia Ferrario and Christopher Tout and Dayal Wickramasinghe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06148},
year = {2018}
}
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3 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 21st European Workshop on White Dwarfs held July 23-27, 2018 in Austin, TX, USA