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The Effective Temperature Distribution Function of Cataclysmic Variable White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E.M. Sion
E.M. Sion*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, U.S.A.

Abstract

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With the recent detection of direct white dwarf photospheric radiation from certain cataclysmic variables in quiescent (low accretion) states, important implications and clues about the nature and long-term evolution of cataclysmic variables can emerge from an analysis of their physical properties. Detection of the underlying white dwarfs has led to a preliminary empirical CV white dwarf temperature distribution function and, in a few cases, the first detailed look at a freshly accreted while dwarf photosphere. The effective temperatures of CV white dwarfs plotted versus orbital period for each type of CV appears to reveal a tendency for the cooler white dwarf primaries to reside in the shorter period systems. Possible implications are briefly discussed.

Type
I. Evolution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 93: Cataclysmic Variables: Recent Multi-Frequency Observations and Theoretical Developments , 1987 , pp. 47 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987

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