Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings (Feb 2015)

New Insights from Inside-Out Doppler Tomography

  • E. J. Kotze,
  • S. B. Potter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2015.02.0170
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 170 – 173

Abstract

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We present preliminary results from our investigation into using an “inside-out” velocity space for creating a Doppler tomogram. The aim is to transpose the inverted appearance of the Cartesian velocity space used in normal Doppler tomography. In a comparison between normal and inside-out Doppler tomograms of cataclysmic variables, we show that the inside-out velocity space has the potential to produce new insights into the accretion dynamics in these systems.