On the superhumps and mass ratio of CzeV404 [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04586


CzeV404 is an SU UMa-type dwarf nova in the period gap. Kara et al. (2021) (arXiv:2107.02664) recently published photometric and spectroscopic observations and obtained a mass ratio q=0.16, which is in severe disagreement of q~0.32 estimated from superhump observations (Bakowska et al., 2014). I here present what analysis was wrong or outdated in Bakowska et al. (2014) and provide a new value of q=0.247(5), consistent with the known behavior of superhumps and the evolution of cataclysmic variables. CzeV404 does not look like an unusual dwarf nova as suggested by Kara et al. (2021) and I discuss that the link between SW Sex and SU UMa systems suggested by Kara et al. (2021) is not supported.

Read this paper on arXiv…

T. Kato
Mon, 12 Jul 21
2/49

Comments: 2 pages, to appear in VSOLJ Variable Star Bulletin