The Implications of Disc Instabilities on Cataclysmic Variable Structure and Evolution
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Applications of the thermal-viscous disc instability model to various classes of cataclysmic variable very often require the accretion disc to be truncated. I argue that in most cases this inner truncation must be due to the white dwarf’s magnetic field.
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