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FIELD CHANNELLED ACCRETION FLOW IN MAGNETIC CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES
- Source :
- The Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting.
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.
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Abstract
- © 2005 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. We use a curvilinear coordinate system, which is natural to the dipolar magnetic field of accreting white dwarfs and solve the hydrodynamic equations governing the filed channelled accretion flow in magnetic cataclysmic variables. This take into account the effects due to curvature of the accretion stream under the gravity of the accretor. Our calculations show that the temperature and density profiles in the accretion stream are significantly different to those obtained from models assuming simple spherical or planar flows.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Curvilinear coordinates
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Coordinate system
White dwarf
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Curvature
Accretion (astrophysics)
Magnetic field
Dipole
Intermediate polar
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1e4e0842da34a02a5f8f24d5049bec91
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812704030_0116