The Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables

Briggs, Gordon; Ferrario, Lilia; Tout, Christopher; Wickramasinghe, Dayal

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Briggs, Gordon

Ferrario, Lilia

Tout, Christopher

Wickramasinghe, Dayal

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2018-10-15

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Briggs, G., Ferrario, L., Tout, C., & Wickramasinghe, D. (2018). The Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.35342

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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

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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.35342

This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288023

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