The dwarf nova MN Dra: Periodic processes at various phases of the supercycle

Details The dwarf nova MN Dra: Periodic processes at various phases of the supercycle The dwarf nova MN Dra: Periodic processes at various phases of the supercycle

Jan 2010

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Astronomy Reports, Volume 54, Issue 1, pp.6-16

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We analyze photometry of the dwarf nova MN Dra carried out using various instruments at four observatories on 18 nights between May 20 and June 28, 2009. The observations cover a variety of activity states of the system: a superoutburst, three normal outbursts, and quiescence. Analysis of the system’s light curve during the superoutburst decline reveals positive superhumps that recur, on average, with a period of 0.105 days and are due to the direct apsidal precession of the accretion disk. These are observed until the end of the superoutburst, but their period decreases at a rate of -24.5 × 10-5 of the period per period. Both the positive-superhump period and its derivative are in good agreement with estimates made during previous superoutbursts. At the brightness minimum and in normal outbursts, MN Dra displays brightness variations with a period of 0.096 days, whose amplitude is much larger during the brightness minimum (0.8 m -1.5 m ) than during normal outbursts (0.1 m -0.2 m ). We suggest that these brightness variations could be negative superhumps due to nodal precession of the oblique accretion disk.

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