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High-Speed BVRI Photometry of SS Cyg at Quiescence and at Outburst

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BVRI photometry of SS Cyg from the end of 1996 and the beginning of 1997 is presented. The star underwent an eruption around December 11. The amplitude of which was slightly bigger than those of observed earlier eruptions. We saw some indication of the future outburst in the decreasing of brightness in all colours by about 0.4 mag during the last two weeks before the event. The emission of the system moved strongly to the shorter wavelengths at outburst. Our multicolour data confirm the existence of a light variability with the orbital (spectroscopic) period at quiescence. Moreover we found for the first time that this variability exists also at outburst but its amplitude is 3–5 times smaller. Whereas the amplitudes of the orbital variability at quiescence decrease to the longer wavelengths, they increase at outburst to the longer wavelengths. The orbital folded curve at quiescence has two-wave shape and was fitted well by the different visibility of two diametrical opposite hot spots (210000 K) with angular size 100 on the magnetic poles of the white dwarf. An analogy between the two basic states of the U Gem-star SS Cyg, the polar AM Her and Z Cam-star RX And was found.

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  1. Department of Physics, Shoumen University, 9700, Shoumen, Bulgaria

    Dragomir Marchev

  2. Department of Astronomy, Cracow Pedagogical University, 30-084, Cracow, Poland

    Waldemar Ogloza

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Kjurkchieva, D., Marchev, D. & Ogloza, W. High-Speed BVRI Photometry of SS Cyg at Quiescence and at Outburst. Astrophysics and Space Science 262, 53–74 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001821702818

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