Constraining the evolution of cataclysmic variables via the masses and accretion rates of their underlying white dwarfs
Constraining the evolution of cataclysmic variables via the masses and accretion rates of their underlying white dwarfs
We report on the masses ($M_\mathrm{WD}$), effective temperatures ($T_\mathrm{eff}$) and secular mean accretion rates ($\langle \dot{M} \rangle$) of 43 cataclysmic variable (CV) white dwarfs, 42 of which were obtained from the combined analysis of their $\mathit{Hubble~Space~Telescope}$ ultraviolet data with the parallaxes provided by the Early Third Data Release of the …