The Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables
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Briggs, Gordon
Ferrario, Lilia
Wickramasinghe, Dayal
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The origin of magnetic fields in isolated and binary white dwarfs has been investigated in a series of recent papers. One proposal is that magnetic fields are generated through an alpha-omega dynamo during common envelope evolution. Here we present population synthesis calculations showing that this hypothesis is supported by observations of magnetic binaries.
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astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.SR