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Hellier, C (2002) Stream-fed accretion in intermediate polars. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 30. ISSN 1050-3390
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I review the observational evidence for stream-fed accretion in intermediate polars. Recent work on the discless system V2400 Oph confirms the pole-flipping model of stream-fed accretion, but this applies only to a minority of the flow. The bulk of the flow is in the form of blobs circling the white dwarf, a state which might have been a precursor to disc formation in other IPs. I also discuss work on the systems with anomalously long spin periods, V1025 Cen and EX Hya. There are arguments both for and against stream-fed accretion in V1025 Cen, and further work is necessary before reaching a conclusion about this system.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Chemical and Physical Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2015 13:59 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2019 14:22 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/322 |