The Long-Period AM Herculis--like Cataclysmic Variable RXJ 051541+0104.6
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 440, 834
- https://doi.org/10.1086/175319
Abstract
We report the discovery of a new catacysmic variable system, RXJ051541+0104.6. The optical spectrum has a blue continuum with superposed H~I and He~I and II emission lines. The soft X-ray spectrum is well fit with a 50~eV black body. The X-ray and optical data are suggestive of an AM~Herculis system. The X-ray light curve shows extreme variability on timescales of seconds, and suggests an orbital period of order 8~hours, nearly twice that of the longest catalogued AM~Her period. When bright, the X-ray light curve breaks up into a series of discrete bursts, which may be due to accretion of dense blobs of material of about 10$^{17}$~gm mass.Keywords
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