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The Genesis of Magnetic Fields in White Dwarfs
Gordon P. Briggs
Magnetic fields generated by a dynamo mechanism due to differential rotation during stellar mergers are often proposed as an explanation for the presence of strong fields in certai…
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…
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…
A fast spinning magnetic white dwarf in the double-degenerate, super-Chandrasekhar system NLTT 12758
Adela Kawka, Gordon P. Briggs, Stephane Vennes +3
We present an analysis of the close double degenerate NLTT 12758, which is comprised of a magnetic white dwarf with a field of about 3.1 MG and an apparently non-magnetic white dwa…
Merging Binary Stars and the magnetic white dwarfs
Gordon P. Briggs, Lilia Ferrario, Christopher A. Tout +2
A magnetic dynamo driven by differential rotation generated when stars merge can explain strong fields in certain classes of magnetic stars, including the high field magnetic white…