BC UMa: early superhumps? Dear Colleagues, We have received a complete set of data from Maehara-san. An analysis of the combined data on Feb. 1 reported up to now is consistent with the presence of low-amplitude double-wave modulations with a period close to the orbital period (the best period from the Feb. 1 data is around 0.062 d). This feature resembles those of "early superhumps" in WZ Sge-type dwarf novae (see Kato (2002) PASJ 54, L11; also see http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/DNe/wzsge01.html for the representative WZ Sge light curves). If the current outburst indeed evolves into a genuine superoutburst, the present observation seems to illustrate a supposed link between WZ Sge-type stars and BC UMa (see Kato et al. (2001) PASJ 53, 1191 for more discussion). Phase-averaged light curve on Feb. 1: http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/DNe/BC_UMa/bc1ph.gif Regards, Taichi Kato VSNET Collaboration team
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