Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-04-24
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:955-960,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 6 figures, will be published in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11819.x
We report on detection of negative superhumps in KR Aur which is the representative member of the VY Scl stars. The observations were obtained with the multi-channel photometer during 107 h. The analysis of the data clearly revealed brightness variations with a period of 3.771 +/- 0.005 h. This is 3.5 per cent less than the orbital period, suggesting it is a negative superhump. Negative superhumps in VY Scl stars are widely spread. The discovery of powerful soft X-rays from V751 Cyg demonstrates that VY Scl stars may contain white dwarfs, at which nuclear burning of the accreted material occur. If this suspicion is correct, we then can suppose that the powerful radiation emerging from the white dwarf may cause the tilt of the accretion disk to the orbital plane, and its retrograde precession may produce negative superhumps in VY Scl stars.
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