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Intermediate Polars: radial accretion flow
Very strong evidence for radial accretion can be obtained by using the same accretion flow model (Stratified Accretion Column) shown earlier for Polars, and applying it to Intermediate Polars
This provides a detailed fit to high resolution X-ray spectra of systems such as EX Hya
Single or even add-hoc 3-temperature thermal bremsstrahlung models do not provide sufficiently good fits

EX Hya
Cropper et al (2002)