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A Study on the Period Distribution of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Kinwah Wu  and
Dayal T. Wickramasinghe
Kinwah Wu
Affiliation:
ES-65 Space Science Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA, and Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Dayal T. Wickramasinghe
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2600
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Abstract

we use Monte Carlo simulations of the period distribution of magnetic cataclysmic variables to show that the synchronised AM Herculis-type systems and the asynchronous Intermediate Polars are essentially unrelated systems following different evolutionary scenarios.

Type
Galactic and Stellar
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 325 - 326
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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