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Using high-precision astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and updated systemic velocities from the literature, kinematical properties of cataclysmic variables (CVs) were investigated. By constraining the data according to the total space velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 R. Canbay , T. Ak , S. Bilir , F. Soydugan , Z. Eker

Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are interacting binaries consisting of at least three components that control their colour and magnitude. Using Gaia we here investigate the influence of the physical properties of these binaries on their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Javier Abril , Linda Schmidtobreick , Alessandro Ederoclite , Carlos López-Sanjuan

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary systems with a white dwarf accreting matter from a low-mass star, making them significant sources of X-ray emission in the Galaxy. We present a systematic search for X-ray emitting CV candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Xiangxiang Wang , Jumpei Takata

Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are compact binaries with white dwarf (WD) primaries. CVs and other accreting WD binaries (AWBs) are useful laboratories for studying accretion flows, gas dynamics, outflows, transient outbursts, and explosive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-23 Solen Balman

Previous X-ray observations toward the Nuclear Star Cluster (NSC) at the Galactic center have discovered thousands of point sources, most of which were believed to be cataclysmic variables (CVs), i.e., a white dwarf (WD) accreting from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Xiao-jie Xu , Zhiyuan Li , Zhenlin Zhu , Zhongqun Cheng , Xiang-dong Li , Zhuo-li Yu

We have carried out an extensive population synthesis study of the ensemble properties of the present-day population of cataclysmic variables (PDCVs) that takes into account the nuclear evolution of high-mass donors close to the bifurcation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-22 J. Goliasch , L. Nelson

Current evolutionary models imply that most Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) have P_orb<2 hours and are Dwarf Nova (DN) systems that are quiescent most of the time. Observations of nearby quiescent DN find that the UV spectrum is dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dean M. Townsley , Lars Bildsten

We report on the Chandra ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the globular cluster NGC 6752. We detect 6 X-ray sources within the 10.5" core radius and 13 more within the 115" half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of Lx approx 10^{30}…

Dwarf galaxies are known to exhibit an unusual richness in numbers of globular clusters (GCs), property quantified by the specific frequency ($S_N$), which is high for dwarf and giant elliptical galaxies, but with a minimum for…

Cataclysmic variables are binary stars in which a relatively normal star is transferring mass to its compact companion. This interaction gives rise to a rich range of behaviour, of which the most noticeable are the outbursts that give the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Connon Smith

We measure the spatial distribution and hard X-ray luminosity function of cataclysmic variables (CVs) using the INTEGRAL all-sky survey in the 17-60 keV energy band. The vast majority of the INTEGRAL detected CVs are intermediate polars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , R. Krivonos , H. Ritter , R. Sunyaev

We present a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of nearby elliptical and S0 galaxies at a variety of wavelengths from the X-ray to the infrared. Our analysis shows that roughly half of the low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arunav Kundu , Thomas J. Maccarone , Stephen E. Zepf

In a recent study (Maoz and Grindlay 1995) we have found that a number of previously recognized anomalies in the diffuse x-ray background at soft energies (\sim 0.5-2 keV) can be understood if about 20-30% of the diffuse flux arises from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Grindlay , Eyal Maoz

We resume the discussion about irradiation-driven mass transfer cycles in semi- detached compact binary systems. The analytical model that describes the onset of these cycles, which occur on a thermal timescale of the donor star, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Büning , H. Ritter

Recently, Bahramian et al. investigated a large sample of globular clusters (GCs) and found that bright intermediate polars (IPs) are a factor of 10 less frequent in GCs than in the Galactic field. We theoretically investigate here this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Diogo Belloni , Matthias R. Schreiber , Maurizio Salaris , Thomas J. Maccarone , Monica Zorotovic

We present volume-limited samples of cataclysmic variables (CVs) and AM CVn binaries jointly selected from SRG/eROSITA eRASS1 and \textit{Gaia} DR3 using an X-ray + optical color-color diagram (the ``X-ray Main Sequence"). This tool…

We investigate the structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in galaxies of different Hubble types in a self-consistent manner based on high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations combined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Bekki , H. Yahagi , M. Nagashima , D. A. Forbes

We present 22 new (+3 confirmed) cataclysmic variables (CVs) in the non core-collapsed globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc). The total number of CVs in the cluster is now 43, the largest sample in any globular cluster so far. For the…

(Abridged) The Cataclysmic Variable (CV) population harbors a diverse range of donor stars and accreting white dwarfs (WDs). A range of WD masses is expected, from low mass Helium core WDs, to massive WDs which have previously accreted at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Phil Arras , Dean M. Townsley , Lars Bildsten

Globular clusters (GCs) are often used to estimate the dark matter content of galaxies, especially dwarfs, where other kinematic tracers are lacking. These estimates typically assume spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium, assumptions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jessica E. Doppel , Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Eric W. Peng , Elisa Toloba