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KIC 9406652 is a remarkable variable star in the Kepler field of view thatshows both very rapid oscillations and long term outbursts in its light curve.We present an analysis of the light curve over quarters 1 to 15 and newspectroscopy that indicates that the object is a cataclysmic variable with anorbital period of 6.108 hours. However, an even stronger signal appears in thelight curve periodogram for a shorter period of 5.753 hours, and we argue thatthis corresponds to the modulation of flux from the hot spot region in atilted, precessing disk surrounding the white dwarf star. We present apreliminary orbital solution from radial velocity measurements of features fromthe accretion disk and the photosphere of the companion. We use a Dopplertomography algorithm to reconstruct the disk and companion spectra, and we alsoconsider how these components contribute to the object's spectral energydistribution from ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths. This target offers us aremarkable opportunity to investigate disk processes during the high masstransfer stage of evolution in cataclysmic variables.

KIC 9406652: An Unusual Cataclysmic Variable in the Kepler Field of View