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Cataclysmic variables and the amplitude‐cycle length relationship
Author(s) -
Richter G. A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.2113070402
Subject(s) - cataclysmic variable star , amplitude , astrophysics , physics , dwarf nova , astronomy , white dwarf , stars , optics
After a survey of the latest state of knowledge on cataclysmic variables in general (Chapter 1) and recurrent novae in particular (Chapter 2), the amplitude‐cycle length relationship ( A‐C relation) is rederived (Chapter 3) after statistical correction for published incorrect values of C . While the A‐C relationship of dwarf novae is of the form A = ‐0.40 + 2.50 log C , it is, presumably for physical reasons less sharply defined for the few known recurrent novae.