An Intermediate Polar Binary System . ... Credit Copyright: Mark Garlick ( Space-art ) Explanation: How can two stars create such a strange and intricate structure? ... Only a handful of stars, however, are members of an intermediate polar , a system featuring a white dwarf star with a magnetic field that significantly pushes out the inner accretion disk , only allowing material to fall down its magnetic poles. ... Intermediate polars are a type of cataclysmic variable star system. ...