Monday, July 29, 2013

Cool data...

Here is a cool light curve that jumped out at me.




The target is PNV J19150199+0719471  which is a newly discovered cataclysmic variable in Aquila.  This is about a 4 hr. run, each dot is a 60 second observation with a CCD camera and yes, those are error bars!  The precursor object was about 20th mag, here you can see it's varying around 15.8  The target is showing a 87 minute period.  This sawtooth pattern is referred to as 'superhumps'.  The model says this is oscillations in the accretion disk swirling around the white dwarf as the matter pours on to it.  It's pretty dramatic…

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