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LONG-TERM VARIATION STUDY OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES WITH PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY

  • YANG, MICHAEL TING-CHANG (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • CHOU, YI (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • HU, CHIN-PING (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • SU, YI-HAO (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • HSIEH, HUNG-EN (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • LIN, CHING-PING (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • CHUANG, PO-SHENG (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University) ;
  • LIAO, NAI-HUI (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University)
  • Received : 2014.11.30
  • Accepted : 2015.06.30
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

The Palomar Transient Factory is a project making use of a Schmidt 48 inch telescope located on the Palomar Mountain, which is surveying the sky with dynamical cadences. It was deployed in 2009 and the observed sky region is over 1200 square degrees. We have studied the long-term periodic variabilities of the known galactic cataclysmic variables (CVs). More than 20 of the sources had been found to have long term periodic signals, ranging from several tens of days to several hundreds of days. Some possible scenarios are proposed to explain the results, such as a magnetic field change of the companion star, precession of the accretion disk, triple systems and superoutburst cycles. Some preliminary discussion will be presented in this article.

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