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The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects

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It is the proper time for a workshop about Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects.

Indeed, the recent INTEGRAL measurements revealed hard X-ray emission from a large sample of CVs, mainly intermediate polars.

This fact renewed the interest of the scientific community about the physics of CVs - interacting binary stars containing a white

dwarf accreting from an orbiting companion.

Undoubtedly, non-magnetic CVs, intermediate polars and polars  constitute the most powerful probe to test the theories of

matter accretion onto white dwarfs and more.

This, together with the new works about the fate of high rate accreting white dwarfs open new horizons on CVs.

Indeed the sub-class of CVs, named Classical Novae, which are the third more powerful stellar explosions in a galaxy,

have been observed as close as a kpc and as far as galaxies in Fornax cluster. The time to report on the recent renaissance in studies

on CNe thanks to observations with 8-10m class telescopes, high resolution spectroscopy, in synergy with observations from space

carried out with Swift, XMM, Chandra, HST, and Spitzer, coupled with recent advances in the theory of the outburst, seems now in order.

Moreover, the possibile connection among some CV-types and SNe-Ia will definitively justify the renewed interest about CVs.

This is a reason more for the necessity of the proposed workshop.

 

The purpose of this workshop is to join about 80 invited scientists from all the worlds in order to discuss the experimental updated

panorama and theories of CVs

and Related Objects.

 

The following topics will be discussed:

 

a)    Opening Remarks (the Importance of Multifrequency Observations)

b)   Cataclysmic Variables (non-magnetic, intermediate polars, polars)

  • Fundamental parameters
  • Accretion physics
  • Outburst physics
  • Magnetic phenomena
  • Interconnection among classes
  • Secular evolution
  • The fate of CVs

c)    Classical and Recurrent Novae

d)   Nova-like Stars

e)   The Astrophysics of CVs and related Objects with the Ongoing and Future Space-Based and Ground-Based Experiments.

 

The workshop will include several 35-min talks to introduce the current problems, and typically 20-min talks giving new

experimental and theoretical results. A series of 15-min talks will be devoted to ongoing and next generation experiments.


The proceedings will be edited by F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati and published by the Memorie Societa' Astronomica Italiana

(Mem. SAIt.) and will be available soon after in the NASA-ADS.