VLT/FORS spectroscopy of faint cataclysmic variables discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 373, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 687-699

  Southworth, John ^a   Gansicke B T ^a   Marsh, T R ^a   De Martino, D ^b   Hakala, P ^c   Littlefair, S ^d   Rodriguez Gil P ^e   Szkody, P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: eclipsing; Novae, cataclysmic variables

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

BINARIES:ECLIPSING; CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; EMISSION LINES; MOST LIKELY; NOVAE CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; ORBITAL PERIODS; PROPERTY; RADIAL VELOCITY; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; VLT/FORS2 SPECTROSCOPY;

WHITE DWARFS;

EID: 33751090324     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11042.x     Document Type: Review

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