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Photometric Evidence for the Presence of An Accretion Disk and for a Superhump - Like Phenomenon in the Classical Nova V1974 Cygni 1992

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Retter
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy and the Wise Observatory, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
E.M. Leibowitz
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy and the Wise Observatory, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
E.O. Ofek
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy and the Wise Observatory, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Abstract

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The light curve of V1974 Cyg shows two distinct periodicities. The shorter periodicity is clearly the orbital period of the binary system. We show that the longer variation has similar features to permanent superhumps. This result indicates the existence of an accretion disk in the system no later than 30 months after the nova outburst. We used the precessing disk model of the superhump phenomenon and previous results in order to estimate that the white dwarf mass is at the range 0.75 – 1.07 M.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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