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[vsnet-campaign 1087] Re:
Dear Colleagues,
I thank Arto, for his kind message, and Taichi ,for is
accurate comment.
Sincerely,
Gianluca
Scrive Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>:
> Re: [vsnet-campaign 1084]
>
> Dear Arto,
>
> > I was looking your lightcurves of last few nights and it
looks that
> > there is two humps that have different periods. On the
Aug 4/5 run
> there
> > is clearly two peaks that are closing each other, on
following night
> they
> > are almost superimposed producing a simpler curve with
larger
> amplitude and
> > now on the last observations the other peak is emerging
again form the
> other
> > side. Do you see these two periods if you do analysis
for the last
> three or
> > four nights? Or is this the phase shift of superhump
what we are
> seeing
> > here?
>
> You are basically correct. Our latest results are
summarized in
> vsnet-alert 6221 and 6223 (and see oc.gif). However, our
O-C analysis
> has shown that Masi's double do not precisely fall on the
expected
> superhump timings. We need to assume a slight variation
of the
> superhump
> period, if these peaks represent growing superhumps.
Identifications
> given in vsnet-alert 6221 are more secure.
>
> Regards,
> Taichi Kato
>
>
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