[vsnet-alert 9008] Re: TU Men in outburst

[Taichi Kato]

> As far as I know, extensive high speed photometry during superoutburst 
> has been not carried out since 1984 (Stolz & Schoembs, 1984). It is 
> known that the variable exhibits several types of superoutburst.

   The 2002 Dec. outburst was observed by several VSNET members
(see below).  Despite the duration of the outburst, the object did
not display prominent superhumps.

   There was a relatively long outburst in 2006 March, reaching
mv=11.9 (slow riser?)

The 2002 Dec. outburst:

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/Mail/vsnet-campaign-dn/msg03162.html
[vsnet-campaign-dn 3162] TU Men: observation from Peter Nelson

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/Mail/campaign-dn3000/msg00180.html
[vsnet-campaign-dn 3180] TU Men observation from Tom Richards

We have received new data of TU Men (on Dec. 21) from Tom Richards.
The object is still in outburst, and the light curve resembles that of
a superoutburst.  However, superhumps are not yet prominent.  Although
we probably need long nightly runs to cover long (reported) superhump
period of 0.1262 d, it may be also possible that TU Men sometimes(?) does
not display superhumps.