The extraordinary cataclysmic binary RU Pegasi: The hottest white dwarf in a dwarf nova?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 572, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 456-460

  Sion, Edward M ^a   Urban, Joel ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: close; Stars: dwarf novae; Stars: individual (RU Pegasi); White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042991418     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340289     Document Type: Article

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