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Paper: |
Photometric evidence of superhumps in XTE J1118+48 approaching quiescence |
Volume: |
261, The Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects |
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473 |
Authors: |
Casares, J.; Zurita, C.; Shahbaz, T.; RodrÃguez-Gil, P.; Charles, P. A.; Hynes, R. I.; Wagner, R. M.; Ryan, E. |
Abstract: |
Ellipsoidal lightcurves of XTE J1118+48 during its decline to quiescence are strongly contaminated with a superhump wave. A PDM period analysis yields Psh = 0.17049(1) d i.e. 0.3% longer than the orbital period. This implies a disc precession period Pprec ~52 d and q ~0.03. |
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