Title:Workshop on The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects � II. Editors: Franco Giovannelli, INAF - Istituto di Astro�sica e Planetologia Spaziali, Area di Ricerca di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy Lola Sabau-Graziati, INTA - Dpt. Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del Espacio, Madrid, Spain Co-published by: Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic, and Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Fri£ova 298, 251 65 Ond°ejov, Czech Republic. Editorial O�ce: CTU � Central Library, Technická 6, 160 80 Praha 6, Czech Republic. acta@cvut.cz I�: 68407700. Head of the Editorial Board: V. Petrá£ek. Editorial Board � internal members: Robin Arthur Healey, Rectorate of CTU, Department of External A�airs, CTU, Czech Republic Ta´ána Jaro²íková, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Natural Sciences, CTU, Czech Republic Milan Jirásek, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mechanics, CTU, Czech Republic Jitka Jírová, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Department of Mechanics and Materials, CTU, Czech Republic Petr Jizba, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Department of Physics, CTU, Czech Republic Pavel Kalina, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Theory and History of Architecture, CTU, Czech Republic Zuzana Masáková, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Department of Mathematics, CTU, Czech Republic Jan Píchal, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Physics, CTU Miroslav Sýkora, Klokner Institute, Department of Structural Reliability, CTU, Czech Republic Radek �ulc, CTU, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Process Engineering, CTU, Czech Republic Editor-in-chief: I. 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PALERMO WORKSHOP 2013 The Second International Workshop on THE GOLDEN AGE OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AND RELATED OBJECTS - II Palermo, Italy, September 9 – 14 Edited by Franco Giovannelli & Lola Sabau-Graziati 1 doi: 10.14311/APP.2015.02.9001 Organizing Institutions INAF – Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma – INAF-IAPS, Roma, Italy INTA – Dpt. de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del Espacio, INTA-DCUCE, Madrid, Spain Czech Republic Academy of Sciences – Astronomical Institute, ASCR-AI, Ondřejov, Czech Republic Czech Technical University, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Astronomy, RAS-IA, Moscow, Russia INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, INAF-OAC, Napoli, Italy Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Scientific Organizing Committee Dmitry Bisikalo, RAS-IA, Moscow (Russia) Massimo Della Valle, INAF-OAC, Napoli (Italy) Franco Giovannelli, INAF-IAPS, Roma (Italy) (Chairperson) René Hudec, ASCR-AI., Ondřejov (Czech Republic) Lola Sabau-Graziati, INTA-DCUCE, Madrid (Spain) Giora Shaviv, Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa (Israel) Paula Szkody, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Local Organizing Committee Franco Giovannelli, INAF-IAPS, Roma, Italy (Chairperson) Daniela Giovannini, CNR-IBCN, Roma, Italy Francesco Reale, CNR-ISC, Roma, Italy iv FOREWORD New results coming from the new generation satellites, especially in the hard X–ray and γ–ray regions, renewed the interest of scientific community about CVs. This, together with the new de- velopments in searching for the progenitors of type Ia Supernovae was the main reason for organizing this workshop on The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects. After the great success attained with the first 2011 edition, we decided to organize, in agreement with the scientific community, this second meeting of a series with biennial cadence in Palermo in the beautiful Mondello bay. We are completely convinced that a deep discussion about CVs and related objects, mostly through the physical processes occurring inside those systems, is the most powerful way for a better and faster development of our knowledge just of the cataclysmic processes, rather usual in the Universe. For this purpose, we invited distinguished colleagues representative the most important space– and ground–based experiments of the present generation. They painted the whole panorama on the experimental results and on their interpretation by using current models and/or developing new ideas for a better comprehension of the detected phenomena. During the discussion of a lot of new results, obtained along most of the electromagnetic spectrum, we have learned that the astrophysics of galactic sources is still extremely interesting and unavoidable. Indeed it provides crucial information on the same physical processes occurring also in the extra–galactic sources, with obvious different scale factors. Many thanks to the authors, which accepted our reminders recalled at the beginning of the workshop, for keeping to schedule. However, in spite of the accurate respect of the dead line of a number of authors, we still suffer a delay in publishing these proceedings because of the laziness of a considerable part of other authors. In spite of this, these proceedings will appear within one year from the workshop date. This is the second edition of the workshop, whose proceedings are published by the ‘Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings’, an international refereed journal of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic). We would like to thank all participants and especially the speakers for their active contributions in rendering this workshop updated with their talks, alive with their discussions, and friendly with their attitudes. Particular thanks to Mr Francesco Reale for his excellent assistance for informatics in Roma, during the preparation of the workshop, and for his faultless assistance in Palermo. A very special thank to Dr Daniela Giovannini for her precious help in managing the workshop. We are grateful to the pianist Maestra Valentina Usai, to the violinist Maestro Alessandro Perpich and to the actresses Lisa Colosimo and Flavia Giovannelli for their wonderful performance ”Hic Habitat Felicitas: Mozarterie from the Kingdom Behind” staged in the suggestive atmosphere of the Splendid La Torre Hotel. v Many thanks to: i. the director of the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (IAPS-INAF) (Dr Pietro Ubertini); ii. the CAEN S.p.A. (Viareggio) who partially supported the organization of this workshop. Particular thanks to the Plan Nacional de I+D+i of Spain for partially supporting the publica- tion of this book. Finally, we would like to thank Mr Daniele Inzerillo, the Chef of the Splendid La Torre Hotel, who delighted us with his creations during our stay and to the whole staff of the Hotel for their professionalism and kindness. The Editors Franco Giovannelli & Lola Sabau-Graziati vi List of participants Arai Akira, Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory, University of Hyogo, Japan arai@nhao.jp Balman Solen, Middle East Technical University, Turkey solen@astroa.physics.metu.edu.tr Baptista Raymundo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil raybap@gmail.com Bisikalo Dmitry, Institute of Astronomy - RAS, Russia bisikalo@inasan.ru Blondin Stéphane, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France stephane.blondin@oamp.fr Breytenbach Hannes, University of Cape Town, South Africa johbenbrey@gmail.com Buckley David, Southern African Large Telescope, South Africa dibnob@saao.ac.za Cannizzo John, UMBC/NASA/GSFC, USA John.K.Cannizzo@nasa.gov Carter Philip, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK philip.carter@warwick.ac.uk Chochol Drahomir, Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia chochol@ta3.sk De Bianchi Silvia, TU Dortmund, Germany silvia.debianchi@tu-dortmund.de Della Valle Massimo, Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, INAF-Napoli & ICRANet, Pescara, Italy dellavalle@na.astro.it Ederoclite Alessandro, Centro de Estudios de F́ısica del Cosmos de Aragón, Spain aederocl@cefca.es Gilmozzi Roberto, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany rgilmozz@eso.org Giovannelli Franco, INAF – IAPS, Roma, Italy franco.giovannelli@iaps.inaf.it vii Gonzalez-Riestra Rosario, XMM–Newton Science Operations Ctr, ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain Rosario.Gonzalez@sciops.esa.int Hachisu Izumi, University of Tokyo, Japan hachisu@ea.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Henze Martin, XMM–Newton Science Operations Ctr, ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain martin.henze@sciops.esa.int Hernandez Santisteban Juan Venancio, University of Southampton, UK j.v.hernandez@soton.ac.uk Hudec René, Astronomical Institute AS–Ondřejov & CTU–Prague, Czech Republic rene.hudec@gmail.com Idan Irit, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel idan@technion.ac.il Isern Jordi, Institut for Space Sciences ICE-CSIC/IEEC, Barcelona, Spain isern@ieec.cat Ishida Manabu, The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan ishida@astro.isas.jaxa.jp Izzo Luca, Sapienza University of Rome and ICRANet, Roma, Italy luca.izzo@gmail.com Kajikawa Tomoyo, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan kajikawa@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp Kato Mariko, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan mariko@educ.cc.keio.ac.jp Katysheva Nataly, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia natkat2006@mail.ru Kawakita Hideyo, Koyama Astronomical Observatory Kyoto, Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan kawakthd@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp Knigge Christian, University of Southampton, UK C.Knigge@soton.ac.uk Kononov Dmitriy, Institute of Astronomy - RAS, Moscow, Russia dkononov@inasan.ru Kotze Marissa, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa marissa@saao.ac.za viii Kotze Enrico, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa ejk@saao.ac.za Latev Georgi, Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Sofia, Bulgaria glatev@astro.bas.bg Martino Bruno Luigi, associated IAPS-INAF, Roma, Italy brunolmartino@gmail.com Mason Paul, University of Texas at El Paso, USA pmason@nmsu.edu Meintjes Pieter, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa MeintjPJ@ufs.ac.za Mikolajewska Joanna, N. Copernicus Astronomical Center–PAN, Warsaw, Poland mikolaj@camk.edu.pl Mukai Koji, NASA/GSFC/CRESST and UMBC, Greenbelt, MD, USA Koji.Mukai@umbc.edu Nagashima Masayoshi, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan g0837714@gmail.com Naito Hiroyuki, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan naito@phi.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp Nebot Ada, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France ada.nebot@astro.unistra.fr Ness Jan-Uwe, XMM–Newton Science Operations Ctr, ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain juness@sciops.esa.int Neustroev Vitaly, University of Oulu, Finland Vitaly.Neustroev@oulu.fi Odendaal Alida, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa WinkA@ufs.ac.za Orio Marina, INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy marina.orio@oapd.inaf.it Pagnotta Ashley, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA pagnotta@amnh.org Parisi Pietro, INAF – IAPS, Roma, Italy pietro.parisi@iaps.inaf.it ix Patterson Joseph, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA jop@astro.columbia.edu Poggiani Rosa, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Italy rosa.poggiani@df.unipi.it Potter Stephen, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa sbp@saao.ac.za Pretorius Margaretha, University of Southampton, UK m.pretorius@soton.ac.uk Qian Shengbang, Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Kunming, China qsb@ynao.ac.cn Reale Francesco, Cnr – Isc, Italy francesco.reale@sic.rm.cnr.it Reinsch Klaus, Universität Göttingen, Institut für Astrophysik, Germany reinsch@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de Ritter Hans, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Germany hsr@mpa-garching.mpg.de Sabau-Graziati Lola, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) — Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del Espacio (DCUCE), Torrejón de Ardóz, Madrid, Spain sabaumd@inta.es Scaringi Simone, K.U. Leuven, The Netherlands simone.scaringi@ster.kuleuven.be Schmidtobreick Linda, ESO, Santiago, Chile lschmidt@eso.org Schreiber Matthias R., Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile matthias.schreiber@uv.cl Sekeras Matej, Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia msekeras@ta3.sk Semena Andry, Space Research Institute (IKI)–RAS, Moscow, Russia san@iki.rssi.ru Shaviv Giora, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel giora@shaviv.org Šimon Vojtěch, Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Ondřejov, Czech Republic vojtech.simon@gmail.com x Sion Edward, Villanova University, PA - USA edward.sion@villanova.edu Skopal Augustin, Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia skopal@ta3.sk Smith Robert, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK r.c.smith@sussex.ac.uk Stoyanov Kiril, Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Sofia, Bulgaria kstoyanov@astro.bas.bg Suleimanov Valery, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen, Germany suleimanov@astro.uni-tuebingen.de Szkody Paula, University of Washington, WA, USA szkody@astro.washington.edu Tanabe Kenji, Okayama University of Science, Okayama-shi, Japan tanabe@big.ous.ac.jp Tappert Claus, Dpto de F́ısica y Astronomı́a, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile claus.tappert@uv.cl Ubertini Pietro, INAF – IAPS, Roma, Italy pietro.ubertini@iaps.inaf.it Uemura Makoto, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan uemuram@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Voloshina Irina, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia vib@sai.msu.ru Yuasa Takayuki, JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan yuasa@astro.isas.jaxa.jp Zemko Polina, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia polina.zemko@gmail.com Zharikov Sergey, Instituto de Astronomı́a, UNAM, Ensenada, Mexico zhar@astrosen.unam.mx Zhu Liying, Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Kunming, China zhuly@ynao.ac.cn xi xii