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Pulsating white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables: The marriage of ZZ Cet and dwarf nova

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Brian Warner  and
Patrick A. Woudt
Brian Warner
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa
Patrick A. Woudt
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa

Abstract

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There are now four dwarf novae known with white dwarf primaries that show large amplitude non-radial oscillations of the kind seen in ZZ Cet stars. We compare the properties of these stars and point out that by the end of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey more than 30 should be known.

Type
Part 6. Binary stars and pulsation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group , 2004 , pp. 382 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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