Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-01-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
17 pages, 38 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
We present high speed photometric observations of 20 faint cataclysmic variables, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Catalina catalogues. Measurements are given of 15 new directly measured orbital periods, including four eclipsing dwarf novae (SDSS0904+03, CSS0826-00, CSS1404-10 and CSS1626-12), two new polars (CSS0810+00 and CSS1503-22) and two dwarf novae with superhumps in quiescence (CSS0322+02 and CSS0826-00). Whilst most of the dwarf novae presented here have periods below 2 h, SDSS0805+07 and SSS0617-36 have relatively long orbital periods of 5.489 and 3.440 h, respectively. The double humped orbital modulations observed in SSS0221-26, CSS0345-01, CSS1300+11 and CSS1443-17 are typical of low mass transfer rate dwarf novae. The white dwarf primary of SDSS0919+08 is confirmed to have non-radial oscillations and quasi-periodic oscillations were observed in the short-period dwarf nova CSS1028-08 during outburst. We further report the detection of a new nova-like variable (SDSS1519+06). The frequency distribution of orbital periods of CVs in the Catalina survey has a high peak near ~80 min orbital period, independently confirming that found by Gaensicke et al (2009) from SDSS sources. We also observe a marked correlation between the median in the orbital period distribution and the outburst class, in the sense that dwarf novae with a single observed outburst (over the 5-year baseline of the CRTS coverage) occur predominantly at shortest orbital period.
Bude Deanne de
Macfarlane Sally
Schurch Matthew P. E.
Warner Brian
Woudt Patrick A.
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