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Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Barwig, H.; Hagen, H.-J.; Engels, D.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.424, p.647-655 (2004)
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Description
We present time-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry, and
far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of HS 0728+6738, a
cataclysmic variable discovered in the Hamburg Quasar Survey. We show
that the system is a new eclipsing member of the SW
Sex class of CVs with an orbital period of 3.21 h. We derive
an orbital inclination of ˜ 85 ± 4° from the average
eclipse profile, making HS 0728+6738 the highest
inclination SW Sex star known. The optical and
far-ultraviolet emission lines are not or only weakly occulted during
the eclipse, indicating the presence of line-emission sites either far
outside the Roche lobe of the primary or, more likely, above the orbital
plane of the binary. The photometric light curves exhibit fast
variability with a period of ˜7 min, which might be related to the
spin of the white dwarf.
Based in part on observations obtained at the German-Spanish
Astronomical Center, Calar Alto, operated by the Max-Planck-Institut
für Astronomie, Heidelberg, jointly with the Spanish National
Commission for Astronomy, on observations made with the IAC80 telescope,
operated on the island of Tenerife by the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) at the Spanish Observatorio del
Teide, on observations made at the Wendelstein Observatory, operated by
the Universitäts-Sternwarte München, and on observations made
with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space
Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of
Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS
5-26555.