STABILITY OF ACCRETION SHOCKS WITH A COMPOSITE COOLING FUNCTION

Authors
SAXON CJ WU KW PONGRACIC H
Citation
Cj. Saxon et al., STABILITY OF ACCRETION SHOCKS WITH A COMPOSITE COOLING FUNCTION, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 14(2), 1997, pp. 164-169
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia → ACNP
ISSN journal
13233580
Volume
14
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
164 - 169
Database
ISI
SICI code
1323-3580(1997)14:2<164:SOASWA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Stability of accretion onto magnetic white dwarfs is investigated via perturbation analysis. We consider a cooling function with composite p ower laws, and the power-law indices are appropriate for bremsstrahlun g and optically thick cyclotron cooling. We find that the presence of cyclotron cooling generally suppresses the instability, consistent wit h numerical simulations by other investigators.