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The Energy Distributions of Magnetic Variables: The Effects of Inhomogeneous Accretion Columns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H.S. Stockman  and
A.F. Lubenow
H.S. Stockman
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
A.F. Lubenow
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Previous shock models for the AM Herculis-type magnetic variables have assumed homogeneous accretion columns, with constant infall densities out to a characteristic column radius. The resulting energy distributions are strongly peaked in the visible to ultraviolet and are in disagreement with observations. We report the preliminary results of calculations with more general radial functions of the infall density. Exponential and gaussian profiles yield continua similar to those of the standard model. More tapered, power-law profiles produce continua which are flatter and in better agreement with observations. Comparisons are made to data for AM Her and E2003+225.

Type
VI. Magnetic Cataclysmic Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 93: Cataclysmic Variables: Recent Multi-Frequency Observations and Theoretical Developments , 1987 , pp. 607 - 611
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987

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