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Cataclysmic Variables

Volume 15 number 2 (1986)

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Brian Warner
Department of Physics and

Abstract

The cataclysmic variables, comprising the classical novae, dwarf novae, and nova-like variables, provide the amateur variable star observer with the greatest opportunities for important and indispensable contributions to the current progress of astronomy.