Spectra of accretion discs around white dwarfs
arXiv:0801.1051 · doi:10.1016/j.newar.2008.03.004
Abstract
We present spectra of accretion discs around white-dwarfs calculated with an improved and updated version of the Shaviv & Wehrse (1991) model. The new version includes line opacities and convective energy transport and can be used to calculate spectra of hot discs in bright systems (nova--like variables or dwarf novae in outburst) as well as spectra of cold accretion discs in quiescent dwarf novae.
10 pages. Talk presented at "Jean-Pierre Lasota, X-ray binaries, accretion disks and compact stars" (October 2007); Abramowicz, M. Ed., New Astron. Rev., in press
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