On the Masses of the Secondary Stars in CVs

Abstract

Recent theoretical efforts have made predictions for the masses of the secondary stars in cataclysmic variables. Accurate observational determinations for M2 are sparse and typically have uncertainties near 0.1M. How well do theory and observation agree?

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