[vsnet-campaign-nova 962] Re: V2540 Oph - detection of period/s

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Re: V2540 Oph - detection of period/s

Dear Alon,

> Thus, I won't reply to your emails anymore, and this one is promised to be
> the last.

   Is this the very way you claimed that "your theory survived" ?

   You didn't simply reply to many simple and essential arguments...

> >  You claim you are the first person who discovered such a relation?
> 
> Yes, the relation I found is new and I was the first person who discovered
> it (Retter et al., 2002, MNRAS, 330, L37). It shows that Patterson's
> relation (from 1999) is only a first approximation. As it deals with
> superhumps I'm quite surprised that you haven't found the time to read it. 
> I'm sure, however, that you can twist this result and `show' the vsnet
> readers that I am wrong.

   Oh, I read it and was not impressed.  I didn't understand why you plotted
all different binaries (CVs, X-ray binary, AM CVn stars) on the same axis
of the orbital period.  Yes, I understood that you read many recent papers
on superhumps, but I also thought that the result was too vague and I cound't
find essential advancement in this field -- I may be wrong, but this is
not directly related to the nova-IP matter presently in question.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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