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The vertical structure of the boundary layer around compact objects
Marius Hertfelder, Wilhelm Kley
Context. Mass transfer due to Roche lobe overflow leads to the formation of an accretion disk around a weakly magnetized white dwarf (WD) in cataclysmic variables. At the inner edg…
astro-ph.SR2017
The Boundary Layer in compact binaries
Marius Hertfelder
We perform numerical hydrodynamical simulations in order to calculate the luminosity and the spectrum of the BL and its dependence on parameters like the mass, rotation rate or mas…