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The Emission from Post-Shock Flows in mCVs

Mark Cropper, Kinwah Wu, Gavin Ramsay

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9907285

Abstract

We re-examine the vertical structure of the post-shock flow in the accretion region of mCVs, and the X-ray emission as a function of height. We then predict X-ray light curves and phase-resolved spectra, taking into account the vertical structure, examine the implications and check whether the predicted heights are compatible with observation.

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