A high-resolution full-color version of this magnetically-accreting
white dwarf illustration can be obtained from the artist,
Mark A. Garlick.
See more of Garlick's work at
http://space-art.co.uk
(note: Flash 6 required to view wwweb pages).
This artwork is copyrighted and may not be used without permission of
the artist.
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LEFT: An artist's impression of the cataclysmic variable WZ Sge, with a
pulsating white dwarf at the center of an accretion disk.
RIGHT: An artist's impression of the cataclysmic variable WZ Sge, with a
magnetic white dwarf channeling the accretion flow in the inner disk.
These figures were created using Dr. R. Hynes' binary star simulation program
"binsim" and edited by Dr. W. Welsh with the Gimp software.
Photo credit: Drs. Robert Hynes and William Welsh.
Viewgraphs of Dr. Welsh's talk, 202nd Meeting of the AAS. Nashville, Tennessee,
2003 May 28:
Back to Welsh's
research page.
Link to PostScript version of press release
This page was last updated on 2003 May 26.
release.ps
Author Rob Wittenmyer