Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
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Feb 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008pasp..120..160s&link_type=abstract
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 120, issue 864, pp.160-164
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Two new faint (g˜18 22) cataclysmic variables (CVs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are confirmed as being strongly magnetic systems from time-resolved optical spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry. SDSS J0921+2038 shows circular polarization that varies between negative and positive values, and at one phase displays a series of overlapping cyclotron emission peaks that characterize a magnetic plasma with B=32 MG and kT≈10. The polarization of SDSS J1333+1437 reaches V/I=15% and its spectrum displays the blue continuum and strong H, He emission-line component often found in the polar class of magnetic CV. Phasing of photometry, polarimetry, and radial velocity measurements for SDSS J1333+1437 indicates a (spin/orbit) period of 2.2±0.1 hr.
Anderson Scott F.
Schmidt Gary D.
Smith Paul S.
Szkody Paula
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