(cba:news) NSV 1436: an interesting target

[Joe Patterson]

Looks pretty tempting to me... possible new DQ Her...and the observation 
window is likely to close in just a few days...

joe

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Subject: (cba:chat) NSV 1436: an interesting target
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 23:16:42 +0100
From: Enrique de Miguel <edmiguel63 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: cba-chat at cbastro.org
To: cba-chat at cbastro.org

Hi all,

   I would like to call your attention on this target
(NSV 1436, at 04:02:39.02 +42:50:46.0). I think
we have a good chance now to unveil some of the
mysteries hidden by this system. Some background ....

   A bright outburst was registered (E. Muyllaert)
by the end of March 2011. We managed to get some time
series, but the target was not particularly well
placed and it was dropped from our target list, as it
didn't seem to show any interesting feature at the time, appart
from low-amplitude oscillations. Tom also reported
a single time series on Oct 12, but the light curve
was equally dull (maybe we have further data in the
CBA archive, but I haven't checked).

   Further information about this interesting target
can be found in the AAVSO Alert Notice 434, reported
by Matthew Templeton on March 30, 2011. From that
note, one can learn that the only bright outburst
of this system was around 1948 (some other less bright
outbursts seem to have occurred since). This is
a known X-ray source, and a recent
paper (Brown et al., 2010, JAAVSO 38, 176) points
to the possibility of NSV 1436 being a recurrent nova
(further historical details in that paper). Basically,
it looks like we don't know what type of DN this is.

   Tom reported last January 2 through the cba-chat that
Mike Linnolt had just registered a new bright outburst
(visually, at 12.4V). We started inmediate follow-up
of this target (Tom, Shawn, and myself). The first
3 nights were a bit dissapointing: one could guess
the presence of high-frequency oscillations, but
difficult to tell about their stability. These oscillations
were of low amplitude (0.03-0.05 mag) on top of
rapidly decay trend of about 0.8-0.9 per day: apparently,
as dull as the light curves we registered some months
ago.

   However, the system entered on January 5 into an interesting
state, with very large oscillations (full amplitude of ~0.8 mag).
Some plots are shown below.
  From the data we have collected so far (Tom, Shawn, and myself)
it seems that we can unveil the orbital period of the system,
which is 0.189(3) d. On top of the nightly light curves, one
can easily observe high-frequency oscillations. From the limited
data we have collected so far, the main oscillations occurs with
a periodicity of 0.02305(7) d. Besides this ~33 min oscillations,
there seems to be others (tentatively, at 43.7 min, 22.6 min,
and 13.9 min). Needless to say that all this is very preliminary
and can (surely, it will) change over the next days.

   For those interested in following this target, I would suggest
only long runs (if possible, covering over one cycle), which
is feasible for Norther latitudes. The target is at the moment
of writing oscillating between 15.8 and 16.5 CV, I'm using
GSC 2885-1928 as comp star.

   Hope someone else can join the action.

   Enrique



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