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Tomography of Polars

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Astrotomography

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Tomographic techniques of different flavour offer enormous diagnostic power for the analysis of magnetic cataclysmic binaries, particularly those of AM Herculis type, the so-called polars. The three main ingredients of such systems, the donor star, the accretor and the accretion stream between the two stars, are investigated by Doppler tomography, Roche tomography and eclipse mapping methods. Future applications currently in development will include Zeeman imaging, cyclotron imaging, as well as combined Eclipse Doppler Tomography. These techniques will reveal the magnetic field topology on the accreting white dwarf and the structure of the accretion curtain in a few carefully selected systems.

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Schwope, A. (2001). Tomography of Polars. In: Boffin, H.M., Cuypers, J., Steeghs, D. (eds) Astrotomography. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 573. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45339-3_10

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