RT Journal Article
T1 Superhumps and spin-period variations in the intermediate polar RX J2133.7+5107
A1 Miguel Agustino, Enrique de
A1 Patterson, Joseph
A1 Myers, J.
AB We report the results of long-term time series photometry on RX J2133.7+5107, an intermediate polar distinguished by its long orbital period (7.14 h) and rapid rotation (571 s) of its white dwarf. The light curves show the presence of a conspicuous modulation with a 6.72-h period, 6.1 ± 0.1 per cent shorter than the orbital period, which we interpret as a (negative) superhump associated with the nodal precession of the accretion disc. This detection may prove a challenge to the idea that superhumps are limited to binaries of short orbital period. Our rotational timings over the 7 yr spanned by our observations show spin-up at a rate of 3.41(2) ms yr-1 or, equivalently, on a time-scale|P/P?|=0.17×106 yr. The latter is sensibly shorter than the time-scale of spin period variations reported for other intermediate polars, possibly due to a greater accretion rate.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0035-8711
SN 1365-2966 (electrónico)
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/15274
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/15274
LA eng
NO Miguel Agustino, E. de, Patterson, J., Jones, J. L., Morelle, E., Boyd, D. R. S., Stein, W., … Myers, G. (2017). Superhumps and spin-period variations in the intermediate polar RX J2133.7+5107. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stx107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx107
NO We thank the National Science Foundation for support of this research (AST-1211129 and AST-1615456), and NASA through HST-G0-13630. EdM acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain) under the Mobility Program Salvador de Madariaga (PRX15/00521).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026