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The Accretion Disk in DQ Her

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. A. Petterson
J. A. Petterson*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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DQ Her is one of the best studied Cataclysmic Variables. It is a classical nova which erupted in 1934 (Nova Herculis). Its optical lightcurve does not repeat accurately from one binary cycle to the next, but usually looks roughly like it does in Fig. 1. The small hump and small eclipse-asymmetry are probably both caused by the hot spot at the outer rim of the disk. The eclipse depth of ~90% argues for an inclination angle near 90°.

Type
Colloquium Session VI
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 412 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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