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CC Sculptoris: a superhumping intermediate polar

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posted on 2016-02-02, 12:13 authored by P. A. Woudt, B. Warner, A. Gulbis, R. Coppejans, F-J. Hambsch, Andrew P. Beardmore, Phil A. Evans, Julian Paul Osborne, Kim L. Page, G. A. Wynn, K. van der Heyden
We present high-speed optical, spectroscopic and Swift X-ray observations made during the dwarf nova superoutburst of CC Scl in 2011 November. An orbital period of 1.383 h and superhump period of 1.443 h were measured, but the principal new finding is that CC Scl is a previously unrecognized intermediate polar, with a white dwarf spin period of 389.49 s which is seen in both optical and Swift X-ray light curves only during the outburst. In this it closely resembles the old nova GK Per, but unlike the latter has one of the shortest orbital periods among intermediate polars.

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Citation

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 427 (2), pp. 1004-1013 (10)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

issn

0035-8711

eissn

1365-2966

Acceptance date

2012-08-27

Copyright date

2012

Available date

2016-02-02

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http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/427/2/1004

Language

en