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Hubble COS Spectroscopy of the Dwarf Nova CW Mon : the White Dwarf in quiescence?
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Hause, Connor, Sion, Edward M., Godon, Patrick, Gänsicke, B. T. (Boris T.), Szkody, Paula, Martino, Domitilla de and Pala, Anna F. (2017) Hubble COS Spectroscopy of the Dwarf Nova CW Mon : the White Dwarf in quiescence? The Astronomical Journal, 154 (2). 48. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa774c ISSN 0004-6256.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa774c
Abstract
We present a synthetic spectral analysis of the HST COS spectrum of the U Geminorum-type dwarf nova CW Mon, taken during quiescence as part of our COS survey of accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in Cataclysmic Variables. We use a synthetic photosphere and optically thick accretion disk spectra to model the COS spectrum as well as archival IUE spectra obtained decades ago, when the system was in an even deeper quiescent state. Assuming a reddening of $E(B-V)$ = 0.06, an inclination of 60° (CW Mon has eclipses of the accretion disk), and a WD mass of $0.8\,{M}_{\odot }$, our results indicate the presence of a 22–27,000 K WD and a low mass accretion rate $\dot{M}\lesssim {10}^{-10}\,{M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}$, for a derived distance of ~200 to ~300 pc.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Astronomical Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0004-6256 | ||||||
Official Date: | 13 July 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 154 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Article Number: | 48 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aa774c | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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