Whole earth telescope observations of am canum venaticorum-discoseismology at last
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We report the results of 143.2 hours of time-series photometry over a 12 day period for AM CVn (= HZ 29) as part of the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) project.ˡ This star is believed to be an ultra-short period cataclysmic binary. In the temporal spectrum of the light curve we find a series of 5 harmonically related frequency mo dulations, some with sidebands with a constant frequency spacing of 20.8 μHz always on the high-frequency side. The set of harmonics has a fundamental frequency of 951 μHz ...
We report the results of 143.2 hours of time-series photometry over a 12 day period for AM CVn (= HZ 29) as part of the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) project.ˡ This star is believed to be an ultra-short period cataclysmic binary. In the temporal spectrum of the light curve we find a series of 5 harmonically related frequency mo dulations, some with sidebands with a constant frequency spacing of 20.8 μHz always on the high-frequency side. The set of harmonics has a fundamental frequency of 951 μHz. No modulation is detected at this frequency in the light curve. In addition, modulations with frequencies 972.5 and 988.9 μHz are detected with low amplitudes. The structure of the dominant 1903 Hz modulation explains part of the “phase jitter” observed earlier. The amplitude of this peak is modulated with a period of 13.32 ± 0.05 hrs. ...
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Astronomy and Astrophysics. Berlin. Vol. 332, no. 3 (Apr. 1998), p. 939-957
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