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Eclipsing AM Herculis Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jeremy Bailey
Jeremy Bailey*
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, P.O. Box 296, Epping, N.S.W. 2121, Australia

Abstract

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AM Herculis Binaries (or Polars) are a subclass of the Cataclysmic Variables in which the accreting white dwarf has a strong magnetic field giving rise to highly polarized cyclotron radiation from the shock heated accretion region. A number of AM Herculis binaries are now known in which the white dwarf is eclipsed by the companion star. High time resolution observations of these eclipses allow a particularly detailed study of the process of accretion onto the magnetic white dwarf. Results on a number of systems will be presented and used to derive information on the accretion structure as well as on the fundamental properties of the binaries.

Type
Part 9. Accretion Curtains and Funnels
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 391 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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