X-ray Survey of near-synchronous magnetic catalysmic variables

We propose to constrain the Xray properties of two relatively poorly studiedsubclasses of magnetic catalysmic variables (mCVs): asynchronous polars (APs)and nearsynchronous intermediate polars (nsIPs), sometimes regarded as themissing link in the evolution of mCVs. This is timely for such studies: werecently discovered a dozen of periodic Xray sources in the Galactic CenterRegion (CGR) that appear to have periods and Xray properties similar to someAPs and nsIPs. A general Xray picture of both is needed to determine theirconnection to thousands of the GCR Xray sources that are generally consideredto be mainly mCVs. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]