CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 48, No.: 1, year: 2018

Author(s): Briggs, G.; Ferrario, L.; Tout, C.A.; Wickramasinghe, D.T.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 271-272.
Date: 1/2018
Title: Magnetic Fields in Interacting Binaries
Keyword(s): magnetic field, white dwarfs, binaries: general, novae, cataclysmic variables
Pages: 271 -- 272

Abstract: Wickramasinghe et al. (2014) and Briggs et al. (2015) have proposed that the strong magnetic fields observed in some single white dwarfs (MWDs) are formed by an α—Ω dynamo driven by differential rotation when two stars, the more massive one with a degenerate core, merge during common envelope (CE) evolution (Ferrario et al., 2015b). We synthesise a population of binaries to investigate if fields in the magnetic cataclysmic variables (MCVs) may also originate during stellar interaction in the CE phase.

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