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2009MNRAS.398.2110W - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 398, 2110-2121 (2009/October-1)

SPH simulations of negative (nodal) superhumps: a parametric study.

WOOD M.A., THOMAS D.M. and SIMPSON J.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

Negative superhumps in cataclysmic variable systems result when the accretion disc is tilted with respect to the orbital plane. The line of nodes of the tilted disc precesses slowly in the retrograde direction, resulting in a photometric signal with a period slightly less than the orbital period. We use the method of smoothed particle hydrodynamics to simulate a series of models of differing mass ratio and effective viscosity to determine the retrograde precession period and superhump period deficit εas a function of system mass ratio q. We tabulate our results and present fits to both ε and ε+versus q, as well as compare the numerical results with those compiled from the literature of negative superhump observations. One surprising result is that while we find negative superhumps most clearly in simulations with an accretion stream present, we also find evidence for negative superhumps in simulations in which we shut off the mass transfer stream completely, indicating that the origin of the photometric signal is more complicated than previously believed.

Abstract Copyright: © 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2009 RAS

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - binaries: close - binaries: general - novae, cataclysmic variables

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