The lower boundary of the accretion column in magnetic cataclysmic variables

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 686-694

  Wu, Kinwah ^a,b   Cropper, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Binaries: close; Hydrodynamics; Shock waves; White dwarfs; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; WHITE DWARFS;

ACCRETION FLOW; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BINARIES: CLOSE; CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; HEAT INPUT; LOWER BOUNDARY; MASS LOSS; SHOCK REGION; SHOCK-WAVES; X-RAY:STARS;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 1542676775     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04640.x     Document Type: Article

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