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Dwarf novae in the Hamburg quasar survey : rarer than expected

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Aungwerojwit, A., Gaensicke, B. T., Rodríguez-Gil, P., Hagen, H.-J., Araujo-Betancor, S., Baernbantner, O., Engels, Dieter, Fried, R. E., Harlaftis, E. T., Mislis, D., Nogami, D., Schmeer, P., Schwarz, R., Staude, A. and Torres, M. A. P. (2006) Dwarf novae in the Hamburg quasar survey : rarer than expected. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.455 (No.2). pp. 659-672. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065049 ISSN 0004-6361.

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Aims. We report the discovery of five new dwarf novae that were spectroscopically identified in the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS),and discuss the properties of the sample of new dwarf novae from the HQS.
Methods. Follow-up time-resolved spectroscopy and photometry have been obtained to characterise the new systems.
Results. The orbital periods determined from analyses of the radial velocity variations and/or orbital photometric variability are Porb 105.1min or Porb 109.9min for HS 0417+7445, Porb = 114.3 ± 2.7min for HS 1016+3412, Porb = 92.66 ± 0.17 min for HS 1340+1524, Porb = 272.317 ± 0.001 min for HS 1857+7127, and Porb = 258.02 ± 0.56 min for HS 2214+2845. HS 1857+7127 is found to be partially eclipsing. In HS 2214+2845 the secondary star of spectral type M3 ± 1 is clearly detected, and we estimate the distance to the system to be d = 390 ± 40 pc. We recorded one superoutburst of HS 0417+7445, identifying the system as a SUUMatype
dwarf nova. HS 1016+3412 and HS 1340+1524 have rare outbursts, and their subtype is yet undetermined. HS 1857+7127 frequently varies in brightness and may be a ZCam-type dwarf nova. HS 2214+2845 is a UGem-type dwarf nova with a most likely cycle length of 71 d.
Conclusions. To date, 14 new dwarf novae have been identified in the HQS. The ratio of short-period (<3 h) to long-period (>3 h)systems of this sample is 1.3, much smaller compared to the ratio of 2.7 found for all known dwarf novae. The HQS dwarf novae display typically infrequent or low-amplitude outburst activity, underlining the strength of spectroscopic selection in identifying new
CVs independently of their variability. The spectroscopic properties of short-period CVs in the HQS, newly identified and previously known, suggest that most, or possibly all of them are still evolving towards the minimum period. Their total number agrees with the predictions of population models within an order of magnitude. However, the bulk of all CVs is predicted to have evolved past the minimum period, and those systems remain unidentified. This suggests that those post-bounce systems have markedly weaker Hβ emission lines compared to the average known short-period CVs, and undergo no or extremely rare outbursts.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Dwarf novae
Journal or Publication Title: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Publisher: EDP Sciences
ISSN: 0004-6361
Official Date: August 2006
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August 2006Published
Volume: Vol.455
Number: No.2
Page Range: pp. 659-672
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065049
Status: Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Funder: Thailand, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Great Britain) (PPARC), University of Warwick, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Ethnikon Asteroskopeion Athēnōn [National Observatory of Athens], Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, European Space Agency (ESA), Royal Greenwich Observatory. Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands), Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Smithsonian Institution, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
Grant number: NAG- 5-10889 (NASA), FKZ 50 OR 0404 (DLR), Schw536/20-1 (DFG), Re 353/11 (DFG), Re 353/22 (DFG), NAS 5-26555 (NASA)

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