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Oxford University Press, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4(345), p. 1266-1270, 2003

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2966.2003.07049.x

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The new AM CVn star in Hydra

Journal article published in 2003 by Patrick A. Woudt ORCID, Brian Warner
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

High speed photometry of the new AM CVn star in Hya (previously known as SN2003aw), spectroscopically identified by Chornock & Filippenko, shows it to have a superhump period of 2041.5 +/- 0.3 s. We find a range of brightness from V ~ 16.5 to 20.3, presumably caused by variations in the rate of mass transfer. In the intermediate state the system cycles in brightness with a period of ~ 16 h and range >= 0.4 mag. There are sidebands to the principal frequencies in the Fourier transform which have constant frequency difference from the superhump harmonics. ; Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS