What can we learn from Accretion Disc Eclipse Mapping experiments?
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The accretion disc eclipse mapping method is an astrotomographic inversion technique that makes use of the information contained in eclipse light curves to probe the structure, the spectrum and the time evolution of accretion discs in cataclysmic variables. This paper presents examples of eclipse mapping results that have been key to improve our understanding of accretion physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402059,
title = {What can we learn from Accretion Disc Eclipse Mapping experiments?},
author = {Raymundo Baptista},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402059},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 postscript figures, 2 links for animated gif files, coded with AN latex style file. To appear in Astron. Nachrichten