[vsnet-chat 3427] Re: Permanent Superhumpers...

[Alon Retter <ar@astro.keele.ac.uk>]

>     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.

As far as I know Joe Patterson first used this term in the 1991 paper on
V603 Aql (Patterson & Richman, 1991, PASP, 103, 735). Osaki (1989, PASJ,
41, 1005) indeed predicted the presence of permanent superhumps, however
his exact words were: `CVs which are permanently stuck in the high tidal
torque stage (in a permanently superoutbursting stage with superhumps)'. 
So, he didn't use specifically the term `permanent superhumps', but the
fame is his forever for the prediction.

Regards,
Alon
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