Cataclysmic Variable Research at Florida Tech

Cataclysmic variables are close interacting binary star systems in which mass typically flows from a low-mass main-sequence secondary star to a white dwarf star. These pages present an introduction to the field of cataclysmic variables as well as an overview of the theoretical and observational research that we're doing.

We're just getting started on this site (still), so for now, some links work, and many don't ... check back in a few weeks (or years) and we should be further along. Here's a quick listing of the folks currently working on the project:

Matt Wood Faculty
David Thomas Graduate Student
Isaac Silver Graduate Student


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