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We report time-resolved CCD photometry of the cataclysmic variable EG Aquarii during the 2006 November outburst During the outburst, superhumps were unambiguously detected with a mean period of 0.078828(6) days, firstly classifying the…

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

Analysis of observations of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova, CP Dra, between February 2001 and April 2009 has revealed 15 outbursts, at least eight of which were superoutbursts. The supercycle length is 230+/-56 d. We report photometry of the…

We report on time-resolved photometry of the 2005 July superoutburst of the dwarf nova, 2QZ J021927.9-304545. The resultant light curves showed conspicuous superhumps with a period of 0.081113(19) days, confirming the SU UMa nature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Akira Imada , Taichi Kato , L. A. G. Monard , Alon Retter , Alex Liu , Daisaku Nogami

We report CCD photometry of the dwarf nova BF Ara throughout fifteen consecutive nights in quiescence. Light curve in this interval is dominated by a large amplitude around 0.8 mag modulation consisting two periods. Higher amplitude signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-14 A. Olech , A. Rutkowski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

We report unfiltered photometry during superoutbursts of PU UMa in 2009 and 2012. The amplitude was 4.5 magnitudes above mean quiescence and lasted at least 9 to 10 days. Superhumps were present with a peak-to-peak amplitude of up to ~0.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-19 Jeremy Shears , Franz-Josef Hambsch , Colin Littlefield , Ian Miller , Etienne Morelle , Roger Pickard , Jochen Pietz , Richard Sabo

We report unfiltered CCD photometry of the first confirmed superoutburst of the recently discovered dwarf nova, SDSS J083931.35+282824.0 in April 2010. From a quiescence magnitude of ~19.8 it rose to 14.0, an outburst amplitude of at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-25 Jeremy Shears , Enrique de Miguel , George Roberts , Donald F. Collins , Gordon Myers , Tut Campbell

We observed the 2001 November superoutburst of CC Cnc. This observation makes the first detailed coverage of a superoutburst of this object. The best-determined mean superhump period is 0.075518 +/- 0.000018 d, which is 2.7% longer than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kato , M. Uemura , R. Ishioka , J. Pietz

Continuing the project described by Kato et al. (2009, arXiv:0905.1757), we collected times of superhump maxima for 102 SU UMa-type dwarf novae observed mainly during the 2014-2015 season and characterized these objects. Our project has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Taichi Kato , Franz-Josef Hambsch , Pavol A. Dubovsky , Igor Kudzej , Berto Monard , Ian Miller , Hiroshi Itoh , Seiichiro Kiyota , Kazunari Masumoto , Daiki Fukushima , Hiroki Kinoshita , Kazuki Maeda , Jyunya Mikami , Risa Matsuda , Naoto Kojiguchi , Miho Kawabata , Megumi Takenaka , Katsura Matsumoto , Enrique de Miguel , Yutaka Maeda , Tomohito Ohshima , Keisuke Isogai , Roger D. Pickard , Arne Henden , Stella Kafka , Hidehiko Akazawa , Noritoshi Otani , Sakiko Ishibashi , Minako Ogi , Kenji Tanabe , Kazuyoshi Imamura , William Stein , Kiyoshi Kasai , Tonny Vanmunster , Peter Starr , Elena P. Pavlenko , Oksana I. Antonyuk , Kirill A. Antonyuk , Aleksei A. Sosnovskij , Nikolaj V. Pit , Julia V. Babina , Aleksandr Sklyanov , Rudolf Novak , Arto Oksanen , Shawn Dvorak , Raul Michel , Gianluca Masi , Colin Littlefield , Joseph Ulowetz , Sergey Yu. Shugarov , Polina Yu. Golysheva , Drahomir Chochol , Viktoriia Krushevska , Javier Ruiz , Tamas Tordai , Etienne Morelle , Richard Sabo , Hiroyuki Maehara , Michael Richmond , Natalia Katysheva , Kenji Hirosawa , William N. Goff , Franky Dubois , Ludwig Logie , Steve Rau , Irina B. Voloshina , Maksim V. Andreev , Kazuhiko Shiokawa , Vitaly V. Neustroev , George Sjoberg , Sergey Zharikov , Nick James , Greg Bolt , Tim Crawford , Denis Buczynski , Lewis M. Cook , Christopher S. Kochanek , Benjamin Shappee , Krzysztof Z. Stanek , Jose L. Prieto , Denis Denisenko , Hideo Nishimura , Masaru Mukai , Shizuo Kaneko , Seiji Ueda , Rod Stubbings , Masayuki Moriyama , Patrick Schmeer , Eddy Muyllaert , Jeremy Shears , Robert J. Modic , Kevin B. Paxson

We performed a detailed analysis of extensive photometric observations of a sample of most active dwarf novae, that is SU UMa stars which are characterised by supercycle lengths shorter than 120 days. We found the observational evidence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Otulakowska-Hypka , A. Olech

We report extensive photometry of the dwarf nova QW Ser throughout its 2003 February superoutburst till quiescence. During the superoutburst the star displayed clear superhumps with a mean period of Psh = 0.07703(4) days. In the quiescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Olech , P. Kedzierski , K. Zloczewski , K. Mularczyk , M. Wisniewski

We present an analysis of photometric observations of the eclipsing novalike variable DW UMa made by the CBA consortium between 1999 and 2015. Analysis of 372 new and 260 previously published eclipse timings reveals a 13.6 year period or…

FS Aur is a known dwarf nova with an orbital period of about 85.7 minutes. It has been assumed to be a member of the SU UMa subclass of cataclysmic variables (CVs), but previous searches for superhumps and superoutburst have been…

We report on time-resolved photometry during a 2012 January normaloutburst of SU UMa. The light curve shows hump-like modulations with a period of 0.07903(11) d, which coincides with the known superhump period of SU UMa during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akira Imada , Hideyuki Izumiura , Daisuke Kuroda , Kenshi Yanagisawa , Nobuyuki Kawai , Toshihiro Omodaka , Ryo Miyanoshita

We present the 2005-2010 outburst history of the SUUMa-type dwarf HS 0417+7445,along with a detailed analysis of extensive time-series photometry obtained in March 2008 during the second recorded superoutburst of the system. The mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Shears , B. T. Gaensicke , S. Brady , P. Dubovsky , I. Miller , B. Staels

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

During July 2009 we observed the first confirmed superoutburst of the eclipsing dwarf nova SDSS J150240.98+333423.9 using CCD photometry. The outburst amplitude was at least 3.9 magnitudes and it lasted at least 16 days. Superhumps having…

We report the photometric analysis of SU UMa based on the observations of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS has released a large amount of data, which contains the light curves of a complete superoutburst and three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Wei Liu , Xiang-Dong Shi , Xiao-Hui Fang , Qi-Shan Wang

We discovered a new deeply eclipsing SU UMa-type dwarf nova, IY UMa, which experienced a superoutburst in 2000 January. Our monitoring revealed two distinct outbursts, which suggest a superoutburst interval of ~800 d, or its half, and an…

We present observations of the dwarf novae GW Lib, V844 Her, and DI UMa. Radial velocities of H-alph yield orbital periods of 0.05332 +- 0.00002 d (= 76.78 m) for GW Lib and and 0.054643 +- 0.000007 d (= 78.69 m) for V844 Her. Recently, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. R. Thorstensen , J. O. Patterson , J. Kemp , S. Vennes