Bibcode
Gänsicke, B. T.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Marsh, T. R.; de Martino, D.; Nestoras, J.; Szkody, P.; Aungwerojwit, A.; Barros, S. C. C.; Dillon, M.; Araujo-Betancor, S.; Arévalo, M. J.; Casares, J.; Groot, P. J.; Kolb, U.; Lázaro, C.; Hakala, P.; Martínez-Pais, I. G.; Nelemans, G.; Roelofs, G.; Schreiber, M. R.; van den Besselaar, E.; Zurita, C.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 365, Issue 3, pp. 969-976.
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2006
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Description
We present time-resolved spectroscopy and photometry of the cataclysmic
variable (CV) SDSSJ133941.11+484727.5 (SDSS1339) which has been
discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4. The
orbital period determined from radial velocity studies is 82.524(24)min,
close to the observed period minimum. The optical spectrum of SDSS1339
is dominated to 90 per cent by emission from the white dwarf (WD). The
spectrum can be successfully reproduced by a three-component model
(white dwarf, disc, secondary) with TWD=12500K for a fixed
logg= 8.0, d= 170pc, and a spectral type of the secondary later than M8.
The mass-transfer rate corresponding to the optical luminosity of the
accretion disc is very low, ~= 1.7 ×
10-13Msolaryr-1. Optical photometry
reveals a coherent variability at 641s with an amplitude of 0.025mag,
which we interpret as non-radial pulsations of the white dwarf. In
addition, a long-period photometric variation with a period of either
320 or 344min and an amplitude of 0.025mag is detected, which bears no
apparent relation with the orbital period of the system. Similar
long-period photometric signals have been found in the CVs
SDSSJ123813.73-033933.0, SDSSJ204817.85-061044.8, GWLib and FSAur, but
so far no working model for this behaviour is available.