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EUVE Photometry of SS Cygni: Dwarf Nova Outbursts and Oscillations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Christopher W. Mauche
Christopher W. Mauche*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-41, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, USA

Abstract

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I present EUVE Deep Survey photometry and AAVSO optical measurements of the 1993 August and 1994 June/July outbursts of the dwarf nova SS Cygni. The EUV and optical light curves are used to illustrate the different response of the accretion disk to outbursts which begin at the inner edge and propagate outward, and those which begin at the outer edge and propagate inward. Furthermore, we describe the properties of the quasi-coherent 7-9 s sinusoidal oscillations in the EUV flux detected during the rise and plateau stages of these outbursts.

Type
VI. Cataclysmic Variable Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 152: Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet , 1996 , pp. 317 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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