Twenty-Eight Years of CV Results With the AAVSO
Volume 40 number 1 (2012)
- Paula Szkody
- AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; mike@aavso.org
- Anjum S. Mukadam
- AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; mike@aavso.org
- Boris T. Gaensicke
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
- Janet A. Mattei
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Arne A. Henden
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Mike Simonsen
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Matthew R. Templeton
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Elizabeth O. Waagen
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Gary Walker
- AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Edward M. Sion
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085
- Steve B. Howell
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035
- Dean Townsley
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscalosa, AL 35487
Abstract
Working with AAVSO data and AAVSO staff on cataclysmic variables since the 1980s resulted in twenty-nine papers from 1984 to 2011. The early work began with characterization of optical light curves of various dwarf novae and novalikes, then moved into coordination of optical observations with satellites (IUE, EUVE, XMM, Chandra, HST, GALEX) to explore the ultraviolet and X-ray regimes of disk systems versus those containing magnetic white dwarfs. The major advances in the field that were derived from these results are summarized, ending with the recent results on the cooling of the white dwarfs and the return of pulsations in GW Lib and V455 And following their 2007 outbursts, and on the spectra of the two peculiar Z Cam systems IW And and V513 Cas.