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AG Dra is a well known bright symbiotic binary with a white dwarf and a pulsating red giant. The long-term photometry monitoring and a new behaviour of the system are presented. The detailed period analysis of photometry as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ladislav Hric , Rudolf Galis , Laurits Leedjarv , Marry Burmeister , Emil Kundra

The dwarf nova CG Dra was intensively monitored during 2005 as part of the Variable Star Sections Recurrent Objects Programme and seven outbursts were detected. These observations were combined with others from the BAA and AAVSO databases…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Shears , Roger Pickard , Gary Poyner

We present 8--12\,GHz radio light curves of five dwarf nova (DN) type Cataclysmic Variable stars (CVs) in outburst (RX And, U Gem and Z Cam), or superoutburst (SU UMa and YZ Cnc), increasing the number of radio-detected DN by a factor of…

We present spectroscopy of seven cataclysmic variable stars with orbital periods P(orb) greater than 5 hours, all but one of which are known to be dwarf novae. Using radial velocity measurements we improve on previous orbital period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 John R. Thorstensen , William H. Fenton , Cynthia J. Taylor

We report extensive 3-yr multiwavelength observations of the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova SSS J122221.7-311525 during its unusual double superoutburst, the following decline and in quiescence. The second segment of the superoutburst had a long…

We present high speed photometric observations of 20 faint cataclysmic variables, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Catalina catalogues. Measurements are given of 15 new directly measured orbital periods, including four…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick A. Woudt , Brian Warner , Deanne de Bude , Sally Macfarlane , Matthew P. E. Schurch , Ewald Zietsman

We present VLT spectroscopy and NTT photometry of the faint cataclysmic binary SDSS J003941.06+005427.5. This object shows triple-peaked H-alpha emission with all three peaks variable in both strength and velocity. We measure an orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John Southworth , T. R. Marsh , B. T. Gansicke , D. Steeghs , C. M. Copperwheat

It is predicted that half or more of all cataclysmic variables (CVs) should have evolved past the period minimum and now exist as so-called "period bouncers" where a white dwarf should be accreting from a Roche-lobe filling substellar…

We report extensive photometry of frequently outbursting dwarf nova IX Draconis. During five months of observations the star went into three superoutbursts and seven ordinary outbursts. This allowed us to determine its supercycle and cycle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Olech , K. Zloczewski , K. Mularczyk , P. Kedzierski , M. Wisniewski , G. Stachowski

We report follow-up observations of five cataclysmic variable candidates from LAMOST published by Hou et al. (2020). LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 is the most unusual of the five; an early-M type secondary star contributes strongly to its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 John R. Thorstensen

GY Cnc is a deeply eclipsing cataclysmic variable star with an orbital period of 4.21 hours that has shown several dwarf nova outbursts. The variable was continuously observed by the K2/Kepler satellite with a short cadence in Campaign 5…

We obtained time-series radial velocity spectroscopy of twenty cataclysmic variable stars, with the aim of determining orbital periods P_orb. All of the stars reported here prove to have P_orb > 3.5 h. For sixteen of the stars, these are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 John R. Thorstensen , Christopher S. Peters , Julie N. Skinner

Context. We present time-resolved spectroscopy and photometry of HS 0218+3229, a new long-period cataclysmic variable discovered within the Hamburg Quasar Survey. It is one of the few systems that allow a dynamical measurement of the masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Rodríguez-Gil , M. A. P. Torres , B. T. Gänsicke , T. Muñoz-Darias , D. Steeghs , R. Schwarz , A. Rau , H. -J. Hagen

We obtained time-resolved optical photometry and spectroscopy of the nova-like variable KR Aurigae in the low state. The spectrum reveals a DAB white dwarf and a mid-M dwarf companion. Using the companion star's $i$-band ellipsoidal…

Cataclysmic variable (CVs) are close interacting binaries in which a white dwarf accretes materials from a low mass main sequence companion. CVs can experience nova eruptions due to low mass transfer rates. In the standard theory of CV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Wenshi Tang , Xiangdong Li , Bo Wang

Accreting white dwarfs in close binary systems, commonly known as cataclysmic variables (CVs), with orbital periods below the canonical period minimum ($\approx$ 80 minutes) are rare. Such short periods can only be reached if the donor star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Ilkham Galiullin , Antonio C. Rodriguez , Kareem El-Badry , Ilaria Caiazzo , Paula Szkody , Pranav Nagarajan , Samuel Whitebook

The variable star V1129 Cen is classified in the GCVS as being of $\beta$ Lyr type. Unusual for such stars, it exhibits outbursts roughly once a year, lasting for $\sim$40 days. For this reason, a relationship to the dwarf novae has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-27 Albert Bruch

The Dwarf Nova Oscillations observed in Cataclysmic Variable (CV) stars are interpreted in the context of a Low Inertia Accretor model, in which accretion on to an equatorial belt of the white dwarf primary causes the belt to vary its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brian Warner , Patrick A. Woudt

V1082 Sgr is a cataclysmic variable with accretion luminosity above $10^{34}$erg s$^{-1}$, indicating a mass transfer rate above $10^{-9}M_{\odot}$yr$^{-1}$. However, its K type companion was suggested to be under-filling its Roche lobe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-23 Xiao-jie Xu , Yong Shao , Xiang-dong Li

We studied two objects identified as a Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) with periods exceeding the natural boundary for Roche lobe filling ZAMS secondary stars. We present observational results for V1082 Sgr with 20.82 h orbital period, an…