期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 491, 期 4, 页码 5717-5731出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3413
关键词
methods: numerical; stars: evolution; stars: magnetic field; novae, cataclysmic variables; white dwarfs
资金
- MCTIC/FINEP (CT-INFRA grant) [0112052700]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2017/14289-3, 2018/23562-8]
- FONDECYT [1181404]
- UK STFC [ST/P000495]
- CONICYT PAI (Concurso Nacional de Insercion en la Academia 2017) [79170121]
- CONICYT/FONDECYT [11170559]
- CNPq [303444/2018-5]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2013/26258-4]
- STFC [ST/P000495/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We present the first population synthesis of synchronous magnetic cataclysmic variables, called polars, taking into account the effect of the white dwarf (WD) magnetic field on angular momentum loss. We implemented the reduced magnetic braking (MB) model proposed by Li, Wu & Wickramasinghe into the Binary Stellar Evolution (BSE) code recently calibrated for cataclysmic variable (CV) evolution. We then compared separately our predictions for polars and non-magnetic CVs with a large and homogeneous sample of observed CVs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We found that the predicted orbital period distributions and space densities agree with the observations if period bouncers are excluded. For polars, we also find agreement between predicted and observed mass transfer rates, while the mass transfer rates of non-magnetic CVs with periods greater than or similar to 3 h drastically disagree with those derived from observations. Our results provide strong evidence that the reduced MB model for the evolution of highly magnetized accreting WDs can explain the observed properties of polars. The remaining main issues in our understanding of CV evolution are the origin of the large number of highly magnetic WDs, the large scatter of the observed mass transfer rates for non-magnetic systems with periods greater than or similar to 3 h, and the absence of period bouncers in observed samples.
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