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The Orbital Period of AM Canum Venaticorum

  • Authors: David A. Harvey, David R. Skillman, Jonathan Kemp, Joseph Patterson, Tonny Vanmunster, Robert E. Fried, and Alon Retter

Harvey et al. 1998 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 493 L105.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 1.

Top panel: a sample light curve of white‐light CBA photometry. Each point is a 60 s integration. The 525 s variations are occasionally but barely visible in the raw light curve. Middle panels: power spectrum of the 1997 light curve. Significant peaks are marked with their period in seconds. The signals at 525.65 and 350.43 s are just the usual harmonics of the main signal, but the signal at 1028.74 s appears to be a new feature. Bottom left panel: 1997 light curve summed at 1051.30 s. The double‐humped waveform agrees in detail with all previous studies, indicating that 1051.3 s is indeed the fundamental period of the main signal (although most of the power is clearly at the first harmonic, 525 s). Bottom right panel: 1997 light curve summed at 1028.733 s.

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