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The submillimeter properties of AE Aqr

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2013

Ulf Torkelsson
Ulf Torkelsson*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, SE 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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AE Aqr is a cataclysmic variable consisting of a magnetised white dwarf with a spin period of 33 s, and a K-dwarf companion. Because of the rapid spin the magnetosphere of the white dwarf the matter that is flowing over from the secondary cannot accrete onto the white dwarf, and rather it is ejected from the system. AE Aqr is subject to extended flaring activity at all wavelengths from radio via optical to X-rays. I present observations of AE Aqr at 345 and 850 GHz using the LABOCA and SABOCA bolometers on APEX. These observations are good enough to distinguish individual flares at both 345 and 850 GHz, and the SABOCA observation is the first measurement of the system at 850 GHz.

Keywords

cataclysmic variablesradio emissionflares
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S290: Feeding Compact Objects: Accretion on All Scales , August 2012 , pp. 145 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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