BRAVO-Brazilian Virtual Observatory

Polars (or AM Her systems) are cataclysmic variables without a disc due to the strong magnetic field of the white dwarf. Most of their emission comes from the region where the accretion column impacts the white dwarf and cools through cyclotron and bremsstrahlung processes. We have developed a new code, CYCLOPS, to model the optical emission from these systems including the four Stokes parameters. It considers a three-dimensional region with the electronic density and temperature varying following a shock-like profile and a dipolar magnetic field. The radiative transfer is solved in steps considering the solution with non-null input radiation.
The footprint of the column in the white-dwarf surface is determined by the threading region in the equatorial plane, i.e., the region from where the flow follows the magnetic lines. The extinction caused by Thomson scattering above the emitting region is optionally included. The fittings of observational data are done using a hybrid approach: a genetic algorithm is used to seek for the regions having the best models and then an amoeba code refines the search. For more details, please see (link para o artigo). We are working in a net-based access to the flux and polarization calculated using our model for a grid of parameters. It will be provided the visualization and the download of the Stokes curves.