Two new systems with enhanced UV line flux ratios as indication of the evolution of cataclysmic variables

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We present ultraviolet spectra of 62 cataclysmic variables observed with Hubble Space Telescope Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph & Faint Object Spectrograph (HST STIS FOS) to diagnose cataclysmic variables with enhanced NV/C IV line flux ratios. We concentrated on calculating the line flux ratios of the above mentioned sample. We found that a number of cataclysmic variables reveal enhanced NV/C IV line flux ratios in agreement with the previous studies (de Martino and Gänsicke, 2009; Gänsicke et al., 2003). Also we found that two new systems (U SCO, V1974 CYG) reveal enhanced NV/C IV line flux ratios. Such anomalous line flux ratios confirmed that these CVs went through a phase of thermal timescale mass transfer (TTSMT) and now accrete CNO processed material from a companion stripped of its external layers (Gänsicke et al., 2003; Gänsicke, 2004; de Martino and Gänsicke, 2009).

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