Magnetism in Isolated and Binary White Dwarfs

By D. Wickramasinghe, L. Ferrario. 2000

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Binary star origin of high field magnetic white dwarfs (2008, methodology): “Among the CVs about 25 per cent (Wickramasinghe & Ferrario 2000) have WDs that are very magnetic.”
Magnetic White Dwarfs (2015, methodology): “Previous reviews on the topic can be found in Angel (1978); Angel et al. (1981); Cropper (1990); Chanmugam (1992); Patterson (1994); Wickramasinghe and Ferrario (2000).”
SDSS unveils a population of intrinsically faint cataclysmic variables at the minimum orbital period (2009, unknown): “The fraction of polars in the SDSS CV sample is ∼20 per cent, compatible with the fraction among all known CVs (Wickramasinghe & Ferrario 2000).”
A SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF BRIGHT, HYDROGEN-RICH WHITE DWARFS (2011, background): “We note that all nine stars have log g values which are substantially higher than the canonical value of log g = 8.0, this is not in the least surprising since it is known that magnetic white dwarfs have masses which are higher than the average for normal DA stars (Wickramasinghe & Ferrario 2000).”
Starspots: A Key to the Stellar Dynamo (2005, background): “Yet, isolated magnetic white dwarfs are quite rare, comprising about 5% of all white dwarfs (Wickramasinghe and Ferrario, 2000).”