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Positive Superhumps in High-mass-ratio Cataclysmic Variables Driven by Apsidal Disk Precession

  • Authors: Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow, David Vallet, Stephen Lepp

Rebecca G. Martin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The eccentricity growth rate (upper) and the precession rate (lower) as a function of the disk outer radius for the linear models with surface density profile given in Equation (13) with C = 5, σ = 0.06 and a varying center for the Gaussian peak, rc. The mass ratio is q = 0.4, H/r = 0.02, and rout = 0.85 rl. In the lower panel, the dotted–dashed line shows the contribution from the dynamical gravitational term (Equation (16)), the dashed line shows the contribution from the de/dr term (Equation (17)), and the dotted line shows the contribution from the pressure terms (Equation (18)).

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