The Long Period AM Her-like Cataclysmic Variable RXJ051541+0104.6

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1994-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9408091v1

Astrophys.J. 440 (1995) 834

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by ApJ. 23 pages. AAS/WGAS LaTeX. 9 figures available via anonymous FTP from sbast3.ess.sunysb.edu in /pub/fred/fig_*

Scientific paper

10.1086/175319

We report the discovery of a new catacysmic variable system, RXJ051541+0104.6. The optical spectrum has a blue continuum with superposed H~I and He~I and II emission lines. The soft X-ray spectrum is well fit with a 50~eV black body. The X-ray and optical data are suggestive of an AM~Herculis system. The X-ray light curve shows extreme variability on timescales of seconds, and suggests an orbital period of order 8~hours, nearly twice that of the longest catalogued AM~Her period. When bright, the X-ray light curve breaks up into a series of discrete bursts, which may be due to accretion of dense blobs of material of about 10$^{17}$~gm mass.

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