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The cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii: B-V colour of the flares

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-07-26 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We report simultaneous observations of the flaring behaviour of the cataclysmic variable star AE Aqr. The observations are in Johnson B and V bands. The colour-magnitude diagrams (B-V versus V and B-V vs. B) show that the star becomes blues as it becomes brighter. In our model AE Aqr behaviour can be explained with flares (fireballs) with 0.03 < B-V < 0.30 and temperature in the interval 8000 < T < 12000.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06157,
  title  = {The cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii: B-V colour of the flares},
  author = {R. K. Zamanov and G. Y. Latev and S. Boeva and S. Ibryamov and G. B. Nikolov and K. A. Stoyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06157},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, accepted in Astronomische Nachrichten