Observational studies of Cataclysmic Variable evolution: Of samples, biases and surprises
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0402125
Bibcode: 2004RMxAC..20..152G
Gänsicke, B. T.
United Kingdom
Abstract
I present brief status reports on three large observational projects that are designed to test our current understanding of the evolution of cataclysmic variables (CVs): The spectroscopic selection of new CVs in the Hamburg Quasar Survey, the search for pre-CVs based on Sloan colours and UK Schmidt/6dF multiobject spectroscopy, and the identification of CVs that descended from supersoft X-ray binaries using a HST/STIS far-ultraviolet spectroscopic survey.
2004
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Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series
eHST
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