This is another member of the so-called Low Accretion Rate Polars,
similar to HS1023+3900, characterized by an almost pure cyclotron
emission spectrum. This object has not been seen in the X-rays,
indicating a very low mass transfer rate. More recently, people
started to wonder whether this is a polar, or rather a pre-polar in
which the white dwarf is accreting not through Roche-lobe overflow,
but from the wind of the still detached donor star. Monitoring is
extremely important, as the detection of a real high state would
clearly rule out that second possibility.
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