How many cataclysmic variables are crossing the period gap? A test for the disruption of magnetic braking

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 389, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1563-1576

  Davis, P J ^a   Kolb, U ^a   Willems, B ^b   Gansicke B T ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Methods: statistical; Novae, cataclysmic variables; Stars: evolution

Indexed keywords

MAGNETISM; MASS TRANSFER;

BINARIES: CLOSE; CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; NOVAE CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; ORBITAL PERIODS; PERIOD DISTRIBUTIONS; POPULATION SYNTHESIS; STAR: EVOLUTION; STARS: BINARIES;

WHITE DWARFS;

EID: 51949109961     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13675.x     Document Type: Article

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