Spreading of Accreted Material on White Dwarfs
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Spreading of Accreted Material on White Dwarfs
When a white dwarf (WD) is weakly magnetized and its accretion disk is thin, accreted material first reaches the WD’s surface at its equator. This matter slows its orbit as it comes into corotation with the WD, dissipating kinetic energy into thermal energy and creating a hot band of freshly accreted material around the equator. Radiating in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray, this material...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/421763