An admittedly pedantic but hopefully useful and informative analysis is
presented of the EUVE 70--180 Angstrom spectra of nine polars. These spectra
are fit with three different models---a blackbody, a pure-H stellar atmosphere,
and a solar abundance stellar atmosphere---to reveal the presence of spectral
features such as absorption lines and edges, and to investigate the sensitivity
of the derived (kT, N_H, solid angle) and inferred (fractional emitting area,
bolometric luminosity) parameters to the model assumptions. Among the models
tested, the blackbody model best describes the observed spectra, although the
untested irradiated solar abundance stellar atmosphere model is likely a better
overall description of the EUV/soft X-ray spectra of polars.Comment: 12 pages, 6 Postscript figures; LaTeX format, uses paspconf.sty,
epsf.sty, and psfig.sty. To appear in the Proceedings of the Annapolis
Workshop on Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables, ed. C. Hellier and K. Mukai (San
Francisco: ASP
