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Soft X-Ray Flickering of AM Her

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Peter J. Wheatley
Peter J. Wheatley*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, Postbus 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands

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I present preliminary results from an analysis of the flickering in the only off-axis, high-state observation of AM Her with the ROSAT PSPC. At high Ṁ, the ROSAT count rates are dominated by optically-thick emission from the white-dwarf surface, which is heated directly by the accretion flow. This emission is very soft, predominantly below 0.4keV, and exhibits strong flickering.

Type
Polar Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 158: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1996 , pp. 211 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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