Z Camelopardalis at standstill and in eruption

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Mar 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...236..839k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 236, Mar. 15, 1980, p. 839-846.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Binary Stars, Dwarf Stars, Novae, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Models, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Balmer Series, Interstellar Extinction, Stellar Luminosity

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Absolute spectrophotometric observations of the prototype dwarf nova Z Cam have been obtained at standstill and during the course of an eruption. Optical continuum slopes during the final stages of the rise to maximum appear steeper (bluer) than those observed during decline and at standstill. The Balmer jump is observed to be in shallow absorption during decline and in deeper absorption during the rise to maximum and at standstill. A composite energy distribution constructed for Z Cam at standstill is compared with fluxes derived from steady-state (alpha-model) accretion disk models which utilize a grid of stellar energy distributions to synthesize the disk fluxes. The most reasonable accretion disk fitted to the observations at standstill suggests a mass transfer rate of 3 x 10 to the 17th g/s. The steady-state model does not fit the observations of Z Cam during decline, nor does any arbitrary linear combination of stellar energy distributions. The results suggest that the accretion disk of decline is time dependent and exhibits an emission character which differs from that seen at standstill.

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