Helium-deficient ER UMa-type dwarf nova below the period minimum with a hot secondary
arxiv(2024)
Abstract
We present the discovery of a peculiar dwarf nova KSP-OT-201712a using
high-cadence, multi-color observations made with the Korea Microlensing
Telescope Network. KSP-OT-201712a exhibits a rare presence of outbursts during
standstills as well as strong Hα emission for a dwarf nova below the
period minimum with an orbital period of 58.75 ± 0.02 minutes. The outburst
cycles are 6.6 days within standstills but increase to 15 days outside of
them. Both B-V and V-I colors become bluer and redder as the outburst
luminosities increase and decrease, respectively, for the outburst within
standstill, while they evolve in the opposite directions outside of the
standstills. The presence of strong double-peaked Hα and weak He I
emission lines with He/H flux ratio of 0.27, together with absorption lines of
Mg b and Na D in the source, leads to the estimation Teff 4570 ± 40 K,
[Fe/H] 0.06 ± 0.15 dex, and log g 4.5 ± 0.1 for its secondary.
KSP-OT-201712a is the second He-deficient dwarf nova below the period minimum,
while the temperature of the secondary is measured for the first time in such
objects. We identify it to be an ER UMa type dwarf nova suggesting that the
evolution of dwarf novae across the period minimum is accompanied by large mass
transfers. The high temperature of the secondary indicates that the system
started its mass transfer when the secondary was about 93% of its main
sequence age. The system will evolve to a helium cataclysmic variable or to AM
CVn once its hydrogen envelope is exhausted before it explodes as a Type Ia
supernova.
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