Dwarf novae in the Hamburg Quasar Survey: Rarer than expected

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2006-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605588v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in A&A, 17 pages, 18 figures, low-quality figures to comply with astro-ph size limit

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065049

We report the discovery of five new dwarf novae from the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS), and discuss the properties of the sample of dwarf novae in the HQS. The orbital periods of the new dwarf novae are ~105.1 min or ~109.9 min, 114.3+-2.7 min, 92.66+-0.17 min, 272.317+-0.001 min, 258.02+-0.56 min for HS0417+7445, HS1016+3412, HS1340+1524, HS1857+7127, and HS2214+2845, respectively. HS1857+7127 is found to be partially eclipsing. In HS2214+2845 the secondary star of spectral type M3+-1 is clearly detected, and we estimate the distance to the system to be d=390+-40 pc. We recorded one superoutburst of the SU UMa system HS0417+7445. HS1016+3412 and HS1340+1524 have rare outbursts, and their subtype is yet undetermined. HS1857+7127 frequently varies in brightness and may be a Z Cam-type dwarf nova. HS2214+2845 is a U Gem-type dwarf nova with a most likely cycle length of 71 d. To date, 14 new dwarf novae have been identified in the HQS. The ratio of short-period (<3 h) to long-period (>3 h) systems of this sample is 1.3, much smaller compared to the ratio of 2.7 found for all known dwarf novae. The HQS dwarf novae display typically infrequent or low-amplitude outburst activity, underlining the strength of spectroscopic selection in identifying new CVs independently of their variability. The spectroscopic properties of short-period CVs in the HQS suggest that most of them are still evolving towards the minimum period. Their total number agrees with the predictions of population models within an order of magnitude. However, the bulk of all CVs is predicted to have evolved past the minimum period, and those systems remain unidentified. Those post-bounce systems may have markedly weaker Hbeta emission lines compared to the average known short-period CVs, and probably undergo no or extremely rare outbursts.

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