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The connection between accretion and jet production in accreting white dwarf binary systems, especially dwarf novae, is not well understood. Radio wavelengths provide key insights into the mechanisms responsible for accelerating electrons,…

An important goal of the disk instability model is to explain the superhump phenomenon. Superhumps are features found in the light curves of binary systems, characterized by a period slightly different from the binary orbital period. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Stephen H. Lubow

We present seven separate Chandra observations of the 2001 superoutburst of WZ Sge. The high-energy outburst was dominated by intense EUV emission lines, which we interpret as boundary layer emission scattered into our line of sight in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter J. Wheatley , Christopher W. Mauche

Novae are the observational manifestations of thermonuclear runaways on the surface of accreting white dwarfs (WDs). Although novae are an ubiquitous phenomenon, their properties at low metallicity are not well understood. Using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Hai-Liang Chen , T. E. Woods , L. R. Yungelson , Luciano Piersanti , M. Gilfanov , Zhanwen Han

We identify a new, bright transient in the Kepler/K2 Campaign 11 field. Its light curve rises over seven magnitudes in a day and then declines three magnitudes over a month before quickly fading another two magnitudes. The transient was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. Ridden-Harper , B. E. Tucker , P. Garnavich , A. Rest , S. Margheim , E. J. Shaya , C. Littlefield , G. Barensten , C. Hedges , M. Gully-Santiago

FUSE and HST/STIS spectra of the dwarf nova WZ Sge, obtained during and following the early superoutburst of July 2001 over a time span of 20 months, monitor changes in the components of the system during its different phases. The synthetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Godon , E. M. Sion , F. Cheng , B. T. Gaensicke , S. Howell , C. Knigge , W. M. Sparks , S. Starrfield

We conducted a time-resolved photometric campaign of the helium dwarf nova, 2003aw in 2004 May--June. 2003aw stayed at 14.7--15.7 mag for the first several days during this campaign, which is the plateau phase of this superoutburst. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Nogami , B. Monard , A. Retter , A. Liu , M. Uemura , R. Ishioka , A. Imada , T. Kato

We carried out time-resolved $V$-band photometry of DM Lyr during long outbursts in 1996 July and in 1996 February-March at Ouda Station, Kyoto University and at Osaka Kyoiku University. Since superhumps were clearly detected in the light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Nogami , H. Baba , K. Matsumoto , T. Kato

We report on time-resolved photometry of the 2015 February-March superoutburst of QZ Virginis. The superoutburst consisted of a separated precursor, main superoutburst, and rebrightening. We detected superhumps with a period of 0.061181(42)…

We investigated the superhump evolution, analysing optical photometric observations of the 2000 February-March, the 2002 October-November, and the 2006 September superoutbursts of SW UMa. The superhumps evolved in the same way after their…

The timing capabilities and sensitivity of Kepler, NASA's observatory to find Earth-sized planets within the habitable zone of stars, are well matched to the timescales and amplitudes of accretion disk variability in cataclysmic variables.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Martin Still , Steve B. Howell , Matt A. Wood , John K. Cannizzo , Alan P. Smale

We studied the evolution of superhumps in the peculiar SU UMa-type dwarf nova, ER UMa. Contrary to the canonical picture of the SU UMa-type superhump phenomena, the superhumps of ER UMa show an unexpected phase reversal during the very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kato , D. Nogami , S. Masuda

We observed the entire course of the 1998 outburst of V592 Her, which was originally reported as a nova in 1968. We have been able to construct a full light curve of the outburst, which is characterized by a rapid initial decline (0.98…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kato , M. Uemura , K. Matsumoto , T. Kinnunen , G. Garradd , G. Masi , H. Yamaoka

We present our second paper describing multi-wave-band, time-resolved spectroscopy of WZ Sge. We analyze the evolution of both optical and IR emission lines throughout the orbital period and find evidence, in the Balmer lines, for an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Mason , W. Skidmore , S. B. Howell , D. R. Ciardi , S. Littlefair , V. S. Dhillon

We give mean spectra and report orbital periods Porb based on radial velocities taken near minimum light for five dwarf novae, all of which prove to have Porb less than 2 hr. The stars and their periods are KX Aql, 0.06035(3) d; FT Cam,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. R. Thorstensen , W. H. Fenton

A dense series of long and high time resolution light curves of the old nova V603 Aql, covering 22 nights (19 of which are consecutive), are analyzed in order to identify and characterize variations on the time scale of hours and days. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-23 Albert Bruch , Lewis M. Cook

We report CCD photometry of the superoutburst of the dwarf nova V1212 Tau obtained during 2011 January and February. The outburst amplitude was at least 6 magnitudes and it lasted at least 12 days. Three distinct superhump regimes were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-21 Jeremy Shears , Tom Krajci , Enrique de Miguel , Ian Miller , Etienne Morelle , George Roberts , Richard Sabo , William Stein , Raoul Behrend

We present observations and analysis of the first reported superoutburst of the dwarf nova SDSSp J082409.73+493124.4 during February/March 2007. From a maximum observed magnitude of 15.4C it declined at 0.09 mag/d for 7 days, flattened out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-02 David Boyd , Jeremy Shears , Robert Koff

We report the discovery of a new dwarf nova and our observations of its first confirmed superoutburst during 2009 October. The outburst amplitude was 6 magnitudes. The main outburst lasted 17 days and was followed 4 days later by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 Jeremy Shears , Patrick Wils , Greg Bolt , Franz-Josef Hambsch , Tom Krajci , Ian Miller , Richard Sabo , Bart Staels

From the observations reported to VSNET, we detected short fading episodes in two dwarf novae, RX And (orbital period 5.0 hr) and SU UMa (orbital period 1.8 hr). The episodes in RX And can be naturally explained as the response to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kato