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Gavin RamsayArmagh Observatory
College Hill
Armagh
N Ireland
BT61 9DG
gar@arm.ac.uk
+44 028 3751 2951
Cataclysmic Variables (CVs)
A large proportion of my research activity has concentrated on Cataclysmic Variables. These are binary stars made up of a White Dwarf and a late-type star orbiting around each other on a timescale of a handful of hours and less. A good introduction can be found at the MSSL Begininers guide to CVs.I used to keep a page at MSSL which listed all the known polars. This page and been moved, here, to Armagh although it needs updating. Recently I've been using data from the Kepler/K2 satellite to study various CVs.
At Goddard Koji Mukai keeps a similar set of pages for intermediate polars.
There are so many different combinations of binaries - different types of
stellar components - magnetic field/no magnetic field, that its sometimes
difficult to remember what they're all called. This
table might be able to
clarify things.
