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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 analyze two sectors of TESS photometry of the nova-like cataclysmic variable star V533 Her. We detect a periodicity consistent with the binary orbital period and estimate a revised value of 3.53709(2) hr. We also detect a strong signal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-20 McKenna Leichty , Peter Garnavich , Colin Littlefield , Rebecca Boyle , Paul A. Mason

We consider a mechanism for the formation of superhumps in the TV Col system, based on the possible existence of a precessional spiral wave in the accretion disk of the system. This mechanism can act in binaries with arbitrary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. V. Kaygorodov , D. V. Bisikalo , O. A. Kuznetsov , A. A. Boyarchuk

We present the results of 37 nights of CCD unfiltered photometry of nova V2574 Oph (2004) from 2004 and 2005. We find two periods of 0.14164 d (~3.40 h) and 0.14773 d (~3.55 h) in the 2005 data. The 2004 data show variability on a similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tae W. Kang , Alon Retter , Alex Liu , Mercedes Richards

We report extensive photometry of the dwarf nova KS UMa throughout its 2003 superoutburst till quiescence. During the superoutburst the star displayed clear superhumps with a mean period of Psh = 0.070092(23) days. In the middle stage of…

We report unfiltered CCD observations of the first confirmed superoutburst of the dwarf nova RX J1715.6+6856 in August 2009. At quiescence the star was magnitude 18.3 (CCD, clear). The outburst amplitude was at least 2.4 magnitudes and it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 Jeremy Shears , Ian Miller , Richard Sabo

Using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, we numerically simulate steady state accretion discs for Cataclysmic Variable Dwarf Novae systems that have a secondary-to-primary mass ratio (0.35 \le q \le 0.55). After these accretion discs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 M. M. Montgomery

We present the period analysis of unfiltered photometric observations of V5116 Sgr (Nova Sgr 2005 #2) and we search for superhump candidates in novae remnants. The PDM method for period analysis is used. The masses of the novae componets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Dobrotka , A. Retter , A. Liu

We analyzed the Kepler long cadence data of KIC 7524178 (=KIS J192254.92+430905.4), and found that it is an SU UMa-type dwarf nova with frequent normal outbursts. The signal of the negative superhump was always the dominant one even during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 Taichi Kato , Yoji Osaki

Continuing the project described by Kato et al. (2009, arXiv:0905.1757), we collected times of superhump maxima for 128 SU UMa-type dwarf novae observed mainly during the 2015-2016 season and characterized these objects. The data have…

We observed the 1998 November superoutburst of WX Cet, a dwarf nova originally proposed as a WZ Sge-like system. The observation established that WX Cet is an SU UMa-type dwarf nova with a mean superhump period of 0.05949(1) d, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Taichi Kato , Katsura Matsumoto , Daisaku Nogami , Koichi Morikawa , Seiichiro Kiyota

Several SU UMa-type dwarf novae, in particular, WZ Sge-type stars tend to exhibit rebrightenings after superoutbursts. The rebrightening phenomenon is problematic for the disk instability theory of dwarf novae since it requires a large…

Recent advances in time-domain astronomy have led to fresh observational insights into intermediate polars, a subtype of magnetic cataclysmic variables generally accreting via a partial accretion disc. These new discoveries include…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Koji Mukai , Magaretha L. Pretorius

We report the superhumps analysis of seven SU UMa-type dwarf novae based on the observations of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Superhumps are seen during superoutbursts of SU UMa-type dwarf novae. The month-long data sets of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Wei Liu , Shengbang Qian

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

Accretion disks around black hole, neutron star, and white dwarf systems are thought to sometimes tilt, retrogradely precess, and produce hump-shaped modulations in light curves that have a period shorter than the orbital period. Although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Montgomery

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

We present the TESS observations of CRTS J110014.7+131552, SDSS J093537.46+161950.8, and [PK2008] HalphaJ130559. Among them, a superoutburst is observed in CRTS J110014.7+131552 which is associated with the precursor outburst, where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Arti Joshi , Claus Tappert , Márcio Catelan , Linda Schmidtobreick , Mridweeka Singh

A thickening at the outer edge of the accretion disk is usually invoked to explain the dips in the light curves of cataclysmic variables with stationary disks at phases ~0.7. The non-collisional interaction between the stream and the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Bisikalo , A. A. Boyarchuk , P. V. Kaygorodov , O. A. Kuznetsov

We report unfiltered photometry during the first confirmed superoutburst of the recently discovered dwarf nova, SDSS J073208.11+413008.7 and conclude that it is a member of the SU UMa family. At its brightest, the star was magnitude 15.7.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jeremy Shears , Robert Koff , Richard Sabo , Bart Staels , William Stein , Patrick Wils