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A brown dwarf mass donor in an accreting binary
S. P. Littlefair, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh +3
A long standing and unverified prediction of binary star evolution theory is the existence of a population of white dwarfs accreting from sub-stellar donor stars. Such systems ough…
astro-ph2006★ 34 cited
Roche tomography of cataclysmic variables -- III. Starspots on AE Aqr
C. A. Watson, V. S. Dhillon, T. Shahbaz
We present a Roche tomography reconstruction of the secondary star in the cataclysmic variable AE Aqr. The tomogram reveals several surface inhomogeneities that are due to the pres…