Cataclysmic variable star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cataclysmic variable stars ( CV ) are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state. They were initially called novae, from the Latin 'n...
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The cataclysm is the Greek expression for the Deluge, from the Greek kataklysmos , to 'wash down' ( kluzein "wash" + kata "down"). Its analogue is an ekpyrosis (conflagration). In biblical myt...
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Introduction to Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) ... Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star systems which have a white dwarf and a normal star companion. ... There are probably over a million such cataclysmic variables in the Galaxy, but only those close to our Sun (several hundreds) have been studied in X-rays so far.
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Here in the Astrophysics Group at MSSL, we are studying a particularly interesting group of binary stars: the Cataclysmic Variables (or CVs for short).
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