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Resynchronization of the Asynchronous Polar CD Ind
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Submitted 3 Jan 2017
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The authors' main claim We report on the analysis of over 46000 observations of CD Ind taken between 2007 and 2016, combined with previous observations from 1996, and estimate a CD Ind resynchronization time of 6400 +/- 800 years.
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CD Ind is one of only four confirmed asynchronous polars (APs). APs are strongly magnetic cataclysmic variables of the AM Herculis subclass with the characteristic that their white dwarfs rotate a few per cent out of synchronism with their binary orbit. Theory suggests that nova eruptions disrupt previously synchronized states. Following the eruption, the system is expected to rapidly resynchronize over a timescale of centuries. The other three asynchronous polars - V1432 Aql, BY Cam and V1500 Cyg - have resynchronization time estimates ranging from 100 to more than 3500 years, with all but one being less than 1200 years. We report on the analysis of over 46000 observations of CD Ind taken between 2007 and 2016, combined with previous observations from 1996, and estimate a CD Ind resynchronization time of 6400 +/- 800 years. We also estimate an orbital period of 110.820(1) minutes and a current (2016.4) white dwarf spin period of 109.6564(1) minutes.
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| s0 | CD Ind is one of only four confirmed asynchronous polars (APs). | background 1.00 | 0.08 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | APs are strongly magnetic cataclysmic variables of the AM Herculis subclass with the characteristic that their white dwarfs rotate a few per cent out of synchronism with their binary orbit. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Theory suggests that nova eruptions disrupt previously synchronized states. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | hedged possibility 0.99 |
| s3 | Following the eruption, the system is expected to rapidly resynchronize over a timescale of centuries. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | hedged possibility 0.70 |
| s4 | The other three asynchronous polars - V1432 Aql, BY Cam and V1500 Cyg - have resynchronization time estimates ranging from 100 to more than 3500 years, with all but one being less than 1200 years. | background 0.99 | 0.11 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s5 | We report on the analysis of over 46000 observations of CD Ind taken between 2007 and 2016, combined with previous observations from 1996, and estimate a CD Ind resynchronization time of 6400 +/- 800 years. | result 0.88 | 0.97 | 0.91 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | We also estimate an orbital period of 110.820(1) minutes and a current (2016.4) white dwarf spin period of 109.6564(1) minutes. | result 1.00 | 0.95 | 0.09 | asserted 1.00 |
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CD Ind is one of only four confirmed asynchronous polars (APs). APs are strongly magnetic cataclysmic variables of the AM Herculis subclass with the characteristic that their white dwarfs rotate a few per cent out of synchronism with their binary orbit. Theory suggests that nova eruptions disrupt previously synchronized states. Following the eruption, the system is expected to rapidly resynchronize over a timescale of centuries. The other three asynchronous polars - V1432 Aql, BY Cam and V1500 Cyg - have resynchronization time estimates ranging from 100 to more than 3500 years, with all but one being less than 1200 years. We report on the analysis of over 46000 observations of CD Ind taken between 2007 and 2016, combined with previous observations from 1996, and estimate a CD Ind resynchronization time of 6400 +/- 800 years. We also estimate an orbital period of 110.820(1) minutes and a current (2016.4) white dwarf spin period of 109.6564(1) minutes.
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