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We present multi-wavelength temporal and spectral characteristics of a magnetic cataclysmic variable (MCV) Swift J0503.7-2819, using far ultraviolet (FUV) and X-ray data from AstroSat, supplemented with optical data from the Southern…

Recently, in the VSX database, G. Murawski reported the discovery of an oscillation with a period of about 40 min in the probable cataclysmic variable 1RXS J014549.6+514314. To confirm the existence of this oscillation and precisely measure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 V. P. Kozhevnikov

Intermediate polars (IPs) are cataclysmic variables which contain magnetic white dwarfs with a rotational period shorter than the binary orbital period. Evolutionary theory predicts that IPs with long orbital periods evolve through the 2-3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John Southworth , B. T. Gaensicke , T. R. Marsh , D. de Martino , A. Aungwerojwit

We report the discovery of 1RXS J173006.4+033813, a polar cataclysmic variable with a period of 120.21 min. The white dwarf primary has a magnetic field of B = 42+6-5 MG, and the secondary is a M3 dwarf. The system shows highly symmetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Varun B. Bhalerao , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Fiona A. Harrison , Mansi M. Kasliwal , S. R. Kulkarni , Vikram R. Rana

The ROSAT source RX J1039.7-0507, known from its optical spectrum to be a Cataclysmic Variable star, is shown from high speed photometry to have an orbital period of 1.574 h. The system has a nearly sinusoidal photometric modulation with a…

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

We analyze the first X-ray observations with XMM-Newton of RXS J070407.9+262501 and 1RXS 180340.0+401214, in order to characterize their broad-band temporal and spectral properties, also in the UV/optical domain, and to confirm them as…

IGR J14257-6117 is an unclassified source in the hard X-ray catalogues. Optical follow-ups suggest it could be a Cataclysmic Variable of the magnetic type. We present the first high S/N X-ray observation performed by \XMM\ at 0.3--10 keV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 F. Bernardini , D. de Martino , K. Mukai , M. Falanga

The asynchrony of the polar SDSS~J085414.02+390537.3 was revealed using the data of ZTF photometric survey. The light curves show a beat period $P_{beat} = 24.6 \pm 0.1$~days. During this period the system changes its brightness by $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 A. I. Kolbin , M. V. Suslikov , V. Yu. Kochkina , N. V. Borisov , A. N. Burenkov , D. V. Oparin

We present the first optical photometry of the counterpart to the candidate intermediate polar RX J0153.3+7446. This reveals an optical pulse period of 2333s +/- 5s. Reanalysis of the previously published ROSAT X-ray data reveals that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Norton , J. D. Tanner

We present the results of our optical identification of the X-ray source IGR J16547-1916 detected by the INTEGRAL observatory during a deep all-sky survey. Analysis of the spectroscopic data from the SWIFT and INTEGRAL observatories in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Lutovinov , R. Burenin , M. Revnivtsev , V. Suleimanov , A. Tkachenko

We analyze a 7.4 hr XMM-Newton light curve of the cataclysmic variable Swift J0503.7-2819, previously classified using optical periods as an intermediate polar (IP) with an orbital period of 0.0567 days. A photometric signal at 975 s,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 J. P. Halpern

Time-resolved observations of a 6' x 6' field, containing the position error boxes of the X-ray source 1WGA J1958.2+3232, were performed in June 1999 with the 91 cm Catania telescope, equipped with a Photon Counting Intensified CCD. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Uslenghi , P. Bergamini , S. Catalano , L. Tommasi , A. Treves

We report the detection of eclipses in LSPM J1112+7626, which we find to be a moderately bright (I_C = 12.14 +/- 0.05) very low-mass binary system with an orbital period of 41.03236 +/- 0.00002 days, and component masses M_1 = 0.395 +/-…

We report the discovery of a new eclipsing polar, MASTER OT J061451.70-272535.5, detected as an optical transient by MASTER auto-detection software at the recently commissioned MASTER-SAAO telescope. Time resolved (10-20 s) photometry with…

We report results of photometry of the intermediate polar V515 And. The observations were obtained over 33 nights in 2008 and 2009. The total duration of the observations was 233 h. We clearly detected two oscillations with periods of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. P. Kozhevnikov

IGR J16493-4348 is an eclipsing supergiant high-mass X-ray binary (sgHMXB), where accretion onto the compact object occurs via the radially outflowing stellar wind of its early B-type companion. We present an analysis of the system's X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Aaron B. Pearlman , Joel B. Coley , Robin H. D. Corbet , Katja Pottschmidt

The bright X-ray source, 2XMMi J180438.7-145647 is fortunate to have long baseline observations in INTEGRAL that compliment observations taken by other missions. Optical spectroscopy of this object has suggested a distance of ~7 kpc and an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew J. Middleton , Edward M. Cackett , Craig Shaw , Gavin Ramsay , Timothy P. Roberts , Peter J. Wheatley

Magnetic cataclysmic variables are close binaries which consist of a compact object - a white dwarf - and a red dwarf filling its Roche Lobe. Such systems are physical laboratories which enable study of the influence of magnetic fields on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Breus , K. Petrik , S. Zola

We present analyses of an Intermediate Polar, IGR J15094-6649, based on the archival optical data obtained from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and X-ray data obtained from the Suzaku, NuSTAR, and Neil Gehrels Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Arti Joshi , Nikita Rawat , Axel Schwope , J. C. Pandey , Simone Scaringi , D. K. Sahu , Srinivas M Rao , Mridweeka Singh

This study confirms MLS110213:022733+130617 as a new eclipsing polar. We performed optical spectroscopic, polarimetric and photometric follow-up of this variable source identified by the Catalina Real Time Transient Survey. Using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. M. G Silva , C. V. Rodrigues , A. S. Oliveira , L. A. Almeida , D. Cieslinski , J. E. R. Costa , F. J. Jablonski