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Period changes of cataclysmic variables below the period gap: V2051 Oph, OY Car and Z Cha

Publikace na Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta |
2018

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We present our results of a long-term monitoring of cataclysmic variable stars (CVs). About 40 new eclipses were measured for the three southern SU UMa-type eclipsing CVs: V2051 Oph, OY Car and Z Cha.

Based on the current O - C diagrams we confirmed earlier findings that V2051 Oph and OY Car present cyclic changes of their orbital periods lasting 25 and 29 years, respectively. In case of Z Cha we propose the light-time effect caused probably by a presence of the third component orbiting the eclipsing CV with the period of 43.5 years.

The minimal mass of this companion results about 15 M-Jup.