CVs: Open Issues
€This
has been an extremely active field in the last 3 decades. Many scientists
addressing the issues, large amount of time devoted on observational facilities, large
and small, on ground and in-orbit
€Much is now understood about these
systems, and many of the fundamental issues in these systems have been addressed (energy
balance in Polars, disk-instabilities in non-magnetics, accretion curtains in IPs)
€Mature
field, which is developing around its boundaries:
ultra-compact systems are an
important and exciting
new
development
€However:
the effect of new facilities, particularly in the X-rays (XMM-Newton
and Chandra) and UV (FUSE, XMM-OM) is only now beginning to
be felt, also greater access to 8m telescopes on the ground
Þ we can still expect to learn a great
deal