(cba:news) FO Aqr, back in the saddle again...
Joe Patterson
jop at astro.columbia.edu
Thu Oct 9 07:12:11 EDT 2014
Dear CBAers,
FO Aquarii, one of our oldest friends, is misbehaving. The 21 minute
period is shortening over the years, as are nearly all DQ Her stars (aka
intermediate polars). But the 2013/4 period change is much too fast -
way out of bounds. The star did something like this before (period
increasing), and I suspect now that I was too hasty in regarding such
misadventures as the result of some inscrutable noise process. It might
be, of course... but now I realize I have to go through the 33 years of
timings and study the residuals after the long-term period decrease is
removed.
Or better yet, if someone else did.
Anyway, regardless of whether anyone is willing to put me out of my
misery, it's important to put the star back on the menu. Still pretty
well placed in the night sky... available to all hemispheres... and
plenty bright (about 14.0), with a very large pulse amplitude.
Actually, for any of you unacquainted with this star, it has one of the
most beautiful light curves in our collection. I attach a splice of
2013 data from Berto and Greg Bolt. You can see that it deserves its
title: King of the DQ Herculis stars! A good comparison is the AAVSO
122 star (V=12.213).
Although short runs are definitely useful, longish (3-4 hrs) runs are
preferred, because there are signals closely spaced in frequency (the
spin frequency, plus an orbital sideband)... and technically it takes a
full 4.8 hr orbit to *fully* resolve them. It's not a hugely
significant point, because with abundant data the signals are very well
distinguished. But longer is better.
Enrique actually started the season back in July, so we have a decent
baseline already. But let's get some good round-the-world coverage now,
so we can explore these odd period changes in a supposedly
well-understood star (not!).
joe
p.s. Josch, with the pulse period being relatively long and the
amplitude high, it might be a good target for your mode of observing.
Nightly observing with a single telescope would also allow us to check
on whether the night-to-night phase changes (which also occur) are
related to changes in brightness (accretion rate??). That's always been
an unknown, and I've never had the data to evaluate it.
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