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High Speed Keck Spectroscopy of Flickering in AM Her

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Warren Skidmore ,
Richard Gomer ,
Keith Horne ,
Kieran O’Brien ,
B. Oke  and
K. J. Pearson
Warren Skidmore
Affiliation:
Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-1575, USA.
Richard Gomer
Affiliation:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, MS-140, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA.
Keith Horne
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK.
Kieran O’Brien
Affiliation:
E.S.O., Alonso de Cordova 3107, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile.
B. Oke
Affiliation:
Dominion Astrophysical Obs., 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
K. J. Pearson
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nicholson Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001, USA

Abstract

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We present fast (72ms) spectroscopy of AM Her obtained at an intermediate brightness state just before a rise to a high state. Interesting features in the line behaviour of AM Her are noted and the variability spectrum is presented and compared to that of SS Cyg.

Type
Part 3. A. Accretion Plasma diagnostics - Observations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 190: Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables , 2004 , pp. 163 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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