Theoretical Studies of Magnetic Degenerate Stars
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The research will concentrate on magnetic cataclysmic variables,                which are binary star systems in which a magnetic white dwarf                   accretes matter from a companion star.  Topics include the                      cyclotron emission from hot magnetized plasmas, radio emission                  from them, and the process of accretion onto magnetic stellar                   polar caps.                                                                                                                                                     Among the many violent cosmic phenomena, some occur because two                 stars orbit about each other and gases begin to flow from one                   star to the other until an explosion occurs on the receiving                    star.  This award supports theory and modelling of mass transfer                onto a highly magnetic white dwarf, an Earth-sized star.                        Observations of such objects have improved to the point where one               may expect new physical understanding of exceedingly hot and                    highly magnetized plasmas, because these astronomical plasmas                   occur on a scale vastly larger than the Earth's laboratories or                 even its magnetic surroundings.
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