Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997a%26a...324l..73v&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.324, p.L73-L76
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Accretion Disks, Stars: Individual: Ss Cygni, Cataclysmic Variables, Oscillations, White Dwarfs, X-Rays: Stars
Scientific paper
During maximum optical brightness of a wide outburst, the soft X-ray flux of the dwarf nova SS Cyg was measured with the rosat satellite. The soft X-ray flux is modulated with a highly coherent sinusoidal oscillation with a period near 2.8s. This is, by more than a factor of 2.5, the shortest period measured in a dwarf nova and, if identified with the Kepler period, provides a lower limit for the mass of the white dwarf in SS Cyg of 1.24 solar masses. Except for the much shorter period and the higher phase stability, the properties of the oscillation are reminiscent of oscillations observed previously in SS Cyg, which suggests a similar physical origin. The shorter period may be due to a significantly faster rotation, near break-up, of the white-dwarf surface layers or a location in the accretion disk much closer to the white dwarf than before.
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