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A warped accretion disc in PX And ?

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We have undertaken a photometric study of the SW Sex star, PX And. We clearly identify a negative superhump signal which might be regarded as the signature of a nodal precessing disc, possibly warped. PX And is also observed to possess highly variable eclipse depth and we discuss two possible explanations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210198,
  title  = {A warped accretion disc in PX And ?},
  author = {H. M. J. Boffin and V. Stanishev and Z. Kraicheva and V. Genkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210198},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

To appear in the Proceedings of "Interplay between periodic, cyclic and stochastic variability in selected areas of the HR diagram", ASP Conf. Ser., 2003, C. Sterken, ed. - 6 pages

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