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X-rays from Cataclysmic Variables

Erik Kuulkers, Andrew Norton, Axel Schwope, Brian Warner

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0302351

Abstract

Cataclysmic Variables are a distinct class of interacting binaries, transferring mass from a donor star to a degenerate accretor, a white dwarf. We here review X-ray observations of these systems, with some emphasis on what has been achieved in the last decade.

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