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dc.contributor.authorBriggs, K.R.
dc.contributor.authorNapiwotzki, R.
dc.contributor.authorMaxted, P.F.L.
dc.contributor.authorWheatley, P.J.
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-27T14:13:05Z
dc.date.available2008-06-27T14:13:05Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationBriggs , K R , Napiwotzki , R , Maxted , P F L & Wheatley , P J 2007 , Testing Magnetic Braking: The X-ray Activity of M Dwarfs in Pre-Cataclysmic Variable Systems . in In: Procs of the 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs - ASP Conf Series 372 . Astronomical Society of the Pacific , pp. 497-500 .
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-58381-239-6
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-58381-306-5
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 166944
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dc.identifier.otherdspace: 2299/2145
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/2145
dc.descriptionOriginal paper can be found at: http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/cs/361.html Copyright ASP
dc.description.abstractAngular momentum loss by magnetic braking is believed to be an important mechanism in the evolution of tidally-locked white dwarf (WD) bina- ries. We measure the X-ray emission of a sample of M dwarfs in pre-cataclysmic variable systems to examine for the first time, if the magnetic activity of sec- ondary stars in tidally-locked white dwarf binaries is the same as that of their sin- gle main-sequence counterparts. Our results support the extrapolation of mag- netic braking prescriptions derived from single main-sequence stars to tidally- locked WD binaries, and therefore support recent results that indicate magnetic braking plays a smaller role than previously proposed.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAstronomical Society of the Pacific
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Procs of the 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs - ASP Conf Series 372
dc.titleTesting Magnetic Braking: The X-ray Activity of M Dwarfs in Pre-Cataclysmic Variable Systemsen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
dc.contributor.institutionCentre for Astrophysics Research
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