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Here, I present Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations designed to assess the likely impact of accretion disc winds on the optical spectra of high-state CVs.
This chapter is based on the publication: Matthews J. H., Knigge C., Long K. S., Sim S. A., Higginbottom N., ‘The impact of accretion disc winds on the optical spectra of cataclysmic variables’, 2015, MNRAS, 450, 3331.
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Note that the apparent absorption feature just redward of the Balmer jump in these models is artificial. It is caused by residual line blanketing in the stellar atmospheres, which the models cannot fill in since they employ a 20-level H atom.
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Matthews, J. (2017). The Impact of Accretion Disc Winds on the Optical Spectra of Cataclysmic Variables. In: Disc Winds Matter. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59183-4_4
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