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(cba:news) CBA Aug-Sep targets (Joe Patterson) [2019-08-08T01:32:33Z]


Hi CBAers,

The HP Lib campaign is over. Very nice coverage, sufficient to establish the orbital period to high precision. Not quite enough to establish the cycle count over decades (as with AM CVn)... but it should be after next year.

The last menu (July 5) is still current... but with some important additions: QR And, V1500 Cyg, and BW Scl. And V630 Sgr, if it's not too faint. And definitely Maxie - keep an eye out for its possible adventures (no need for time series)

Although I mentioned numerous DQ Her stars (intermediate polars) in the last message, Enrique's recent post also lists some important and recently discovered ones.

And a reminder. In general, the IPs are adequately served by medium-length time series (2-3 hours), longer ones are more impactful. For the novae and novalikes, lengthy time series are greatly to be preferred.

Also... some of the nova targets are pretty damn faint. If they're too faint, then skip the time series and simply report one magnitude or upper limit. That would be useful!

joe

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