[vsnet-alert 17405] ASASSN-14cq: new WZ Sge-type dwarf nova with prominent early superhumps

Taichi Kato tkato at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Sun Jun 22 17:35:15 JST 2014


ASASSN-14cq: new WZ Sge-type dwarf nova with prominent early superhumps

> Three consecutive nights of timeseries photometry of the outbursting 
> CV ASASSN-14cq show modulations of diminishing amplitude with a
> double hump profile in a continuously fading light curve.

   They are early superhumps.  The object is indeed a WZ Sge-type
dwarf nova.  The period obtained from Monard's three nights
was 0.05663(1) d.  The mean full amplitude was 0.07 mag
with a characteristic double-wave profile.


More information about the vsnet-alert mailing list