[vsnet-chat 3424] Re: Permanent Superhumpers...

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 3422] Re: Permanent Superhumpers...

    Stan is probably right in the origin of the term "superhump", then what
about "superoutburst" or "SU UMa-type" ?  Because of the presence of
the northern protype, some of these terms may have been US coined.

    Regarding "permanent superhumpers", I thought that the term was first
used by Y. Osaki in his dwarf nova unification theory.  [Am I correct?]
By the way, "permanet superhumpers" are often abbreviated as "PS", just
as SU for SU UMa stars.  Some people is called to have invented a new
interpretation of PS as "permanent student", from an analogy that CV
represents curriculum vitae.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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