
%0 Journal Article
%A Tennant, Allyn F 
%A Weisskopf, Martin C 
%A O'Dell, Stephen L 
%A Wu, Kinwah 
%T Simulating AXAF Grating Spectra of Accreting White Dwarfs
%J Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
%D 1998/11/01
%V 15
%N 3
%P 339-347
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AS98339
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AS98339 
%X We present simulated AXAF spectra of accreting white dwarfs, using parameters appropriate for magnetic cataclysmic variables. The very high spectral resolution that can be obtained with the High-Energy Transmission Grating of AXAF can resolve the keV X-ray emission lines that characterise the temperature, density and velocity profiles of the shock-heated emission regions of these systems. These simulations demonstrate that actual spectra will allow us to place constraints on the white-dwarf mass and the accretion rate of the systems. The high-resolution spectra also allow the measurement of the velocity of the accretion flow in regions close to the white-dwarf surface. 
