X-rays from Cataclysmic Variables
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Cataclysmic Variables are a distinct class of interacting binaries, transferring mass from a donor star to a degenerate accretor, a white dwarf. We here review X-ray observations of these systems, with some emphasis on what has been achieved in the last decade.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0302351,
title = {X-rays from Cataclysmic Variables},
author = {Erik Kuulkers and Andrew Norton and Axel Schwope and Brian Warner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0302351},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
40 pages, 10 figures; minor updates to text. To appear in Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources, eds. W.H.G. Lewin and M. van der Klis, Cambridge University Press