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The white dwarfs in accreting close binaries provide a direct probe into the effects of magnetic fields and long term accretion on the evolution of these systems. Spectra from HST, FUSE, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveal the range of temperatures, the rotation rates and the accretion geometries that are linked to the magnetic fields and the ages of the white dwarfs. Identifying these parameters allows us to obtain clues about how the evolution of single white dwarfs differs from those in close binary environments and how the cooling sequence is affected by the mass transfer.
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Szkody, P., Sion, E.M., Gänsicke, B.T. (2005). White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables: Probes of Accretion History. In: Sion, E.M., Vennes, S., Shipman, H.L. (eds) White Dwarfs: Cosmological and Galactic Probes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 332. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3725-2_19
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