We measured the photometric flux of the cataclysmic variable TT Arietis (BD+14 341) using the MOST space telescope. Periodic oscillations of the flux reveal the orbital period as well as other features of this binary system. We applied a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on a reduced dataset to retrieve the frequencies of TT Arietis. The analysis of the system revealed a photometric period of 3.19 hours. Though the MOST data has a high cadence of 52.8 seconds, a fine structure of the accretion disk is not obvious.
@article{arxiv.0906.4180,
title = {TT Arietis - Observations of a Cataclysmic Variable Star with the MOST Space Telescope},
author = {J. Weingrill and G. Kleinschuster and R. Kuschnig and J. M. Matthews and A. Moffat and S. Rucinski and D. Sasselov and W. W. Weiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4180},
year = {2015}
}