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The Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables
Gordon Briggs, Lilia Ferrario, Christopher Tout +1
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…
Origin of magnetic fields in cataclysmic variables
Gordon P. Briggs, Lilia Ferrario, Christopher A. Tout +1
In a series of recent papers, it has been proposed that high field magnetic white dwarfs are the result of close binary interaction and merging. Population synthesis calculations h…
Cosmic Biology in Perspective
N. C. Wickramasinghe, Dayal T. Wickramasinghe, Christopher A. Tout +2
A series of astronomical observations obtained over the period 1986 to 2018 supports the idea that life is a cosmic rather than a purely terrestrial or planetary phenomenon. These…
Genesis of magnetic fields in isolated white dwarfs
Gordon P. Briggs, Lilia Ferrario, Christopher A. Tout +1
A dynamo mechanism driven by differential rotation when stars merge has been proposed to explain the presence of strong fields in certain classes of magnetic stars. In the case of…
Magnetic Fields in Interacting Binaries
G. Briggs, Lilia Ferrario, C. A. Tout +1
Wickramasinghe et al. (2014) and Briggs et al. (2015) have proposed that the strong magnetic fields observed in some single white dwarfs (MWDs) are formed by a dynamo driven by dif…