The accretion and spreading of matter on white dwarfs

New Astronomy Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 509-515

  Fisker, Jacob Lund ^a   Balsara, Dinshaw S ^a   Burger, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Accretion disks; Binaries:close; Cataclysmic variables; Novae; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749127449     PISSN: 13876473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2006.06.009     Document Type: Review

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