Recent results on intermediate polars

Abstract

I review recent activity in the field of intermediate polars, concentrating on: the mode of accretion (disc-fed, disc-overflow or discless); accretion curtains (the transition region and the accretion footprint); X-ray pulse profiles (occultation and absorption effects); accretion columns (mass determinations, line-broadening, the soft X-ray component), and outbursts in intermediate polars.

To appear in ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 157, p1-14; LaTeX, uses paspconf.sty, 8 figures, also at http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~ch/publist.html