Title
OAUNI astronomical photometry: Stellar variability of FO Aqr on 2016 low state
Date Issued
26 June 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract
This work reports a photometric monitoring of the intermediate polar cataclysmic variable star FO Aqr. This is part of the ongoing OAUNI stellar variability program. Around 1200 individual measurements (or ∼ 9 hrs of observations) were gathered distributed in five nights. The observation epoch was coincident with the 2016 low state brightness of FO Aqr. Good quality light curves detect unambiguously the expected stellar variability of FO Aqr. The analysis using periodograms let to determine the main two known periods, P1 = 20.380 ± .003 min and P2 = 11.076 ± .001 min. Our full five-nights analysis shows that P1, the spin white dwarf period, is more prominent than P2, the one-half of the beat period between the spin and orbital periods. Nevertheless, individual light curves show than, at least in one case, a reverse pattern is found. It suggests a dependence of the beat period with the orbital phase of the system with important variations at the same phase interval.
Volume
1558
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas Óptica Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85088128293
Source
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
ISSN of the container
17426588
Conference
17th Meeting of Physics Lima 15 August 2018 through 17 August 2018
Sponsor(s)
The author is grateful for the economic support from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Rectorate and the Instituto General de Investigación (IGI) at UNI, and Concytec (Convenio 102-2015 Fondecyt). Special thanks to the Huancayo Observatory staff for the logistic support.
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