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Direct Evidence for Modulated Irradiation of Secondary Components in Dwarf Novae during Superoutbursts
J. Smak
Contribution from the irradiated secondary component is detected in the light curves of five dwarf novae observed during superoutbursts. Their superhump light curves show that irra…
Superhumps and their Amplitudes
J. Smak
Superhump amplitudes observed in dwarf novae during their superoutbursts depend on orbital inclination: the maximum amplitudes in systems with low inclinations are $A_\circ \approx…
New Interpretation of Superhumps
J. Smak
Observational evidence is presented for periodically variable irradiation of secondary components. This results in strongly modulated mass outflow. Superhumps are then due to enhan…
Z Cha and its Superhumps
J. Smak
From the analysis of superhump eclipses of Z Cha it is found that the location of the superhump light source coincides with the overflowing parts of the stream. This implies that s…
Are disk in dwarf novae during their superoutbursts really eccentric?
J. Smak
The evidence presented earlier by several authors for the substantial disk eccentricity in dwarf novae during their superoutbursts is shown to result either from errors or from arb…
On the Amplitudes of Superhumps
J. Smak
Amplitudes of bolometric light curves produced by 2D and 3D simulations are used to determine the corresponding visual amplitudes. They turn out to be about 10 times lower than typ…