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Superhumps in the cataclysmic variable BG Tri

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2022-08-24 v1

Abstract

We present a detailed photometric study of the bright cataclysmic variable BG Tri using ground-based observations mainly from Rozhen Observatory, ASAS-SN, TESS, and WASP sky surveys. We report the discovery of a negative superhump with Psh_{-sh} = 0.1515(2) days and a co-existing superorbital variation with P=3.94(53) days in data from 2019 and 2020. A positive superhump with P+sh_{+sh} = 0.1727(14) days is also discovered in data from 2006. The obtained negative superhump deficit ε\varepsilon_{-}=0.044(1) and the positive superhump excess ε+\varepsilon_+=0.090(9) give us an independent photometric evaluation of the mass ratio (q) of the system, which we find to be q_- = 0.37(2) and q+_+ = 0.40(5) respectively. We also present a study of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and stochastic variability (flickering) in BG Tri. The light curves show a rich mixture of simultaneously overlapping quasi-periods ranging from 5 to 25 minutes. The multi-color (UBVRI) photometric observations from Rozhen Observatory reveal the typical increase of the flickering amplitudes to the shorter wavelengths. The recently introduced A60_{60} amplitude of the flickering light source in all studied photometric bands is systematically lower when the negative superhump is gone in season 2021.

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@article{arxiv.2208.10855,
  title  = {Superhumps in the cataclysmic variable BG Tri},
  author = {S. Y. Stefanov and G. Latev and S. Boeva and M. Moyseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.10855},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted 2022 August 15. Received 2022 July 28; in original form 2022 June 17

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