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dwarf novae
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dwarf novae [¦dwȯrf ′nō‚vī]
(astronomy)
A class of irregular variable stars which undergo rapid increases in brightness of several magnitudes at semiperiodic intervals, and then decrease more slowly to the normal minimum; they may be divided into U Geminorum stars and Z Camelopardalis stars.
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0 (hereafter 'SDSS1627') as a dwarf nova candidate in the spectroscopic data release 6 (DR6) of the SDSS.
SDSS J162718.39+120435.0--a dwarf nova a in the period gap by Shears, Jeremy; Brady, Steve; Gansicke, Boris; Krajci, Tom; Miller, Ian; Ogmen, Yenal; Pietz, Jochen / Journal of the British Astronomical Association
This particular CV has strong dwarf nova oscillations and Mr Zietsman will focus on the analysis of the spectroscopic signatures of these oscillations.
University of Cape Town: Astronomy Department--2007 annual report by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Among specific topics are observational population studies of the variables, faint X-ray sources in globular clusters in the XMM-Newton and Chandra era, jets and outflows in micro-quasars, a model for low accretions rate polars, the spreading layer and dwarf nova oscillations, correlated X-ray and optical variability in X-ray binaries, and white dwarfs undergoing hydrogen shell burning single degenerate binary systems.
The astrophysics of cataclysmic variables and related objects; ... by SciTech Book News
 
 
 
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