Superoutburst of SDSS J090221.35+381941.9: First measurement of mass ratio in an AM CVn-type object using growing superhumps

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Authors	KATO T. OHSHIMA T. DENISENKO D. DUBOVSKY P.A. KUDZEJ I. STEIN W. DE MIGUEL E. HENDEN A. MILLER I. ANTONYUK K. ANTONYUK O. PIT N. SOSNOVSKIJ A. BAKLANOV A. BABINA J. PAVLENKO E.P. MATSUMOTO K. FUKUSHIMA D. TAKENAKA M. KAWABATA M. SAKAI D. MAEDA K. MATSUDA R. MATSUMOTO K. LITTLEFIELD C. OKSANEN A. ITOH H. MASI G. NOCENTINI F. SCHMEER P. PICKARD R.D. KIYOTA S. DVORAK S. ULOWETZ J. MAEDA Y. MICHEL R. SHUGAROV S.Y. CHOCHOL D. NOVÁK Rudolf
Year of publication	2014
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psu077
Field	Astronomy and astrophysics
Keywords	accretion accretion disks; novae cataclysmic variables; stars: dwarf novae; stars: individual
Description	We report on a superoutburst of the AM CVn-type object SDSS J090221.35+381941.9 [J0902; orbital period 0.03355(6) d] in 2014 March-April. The entire superoutburst consisted of a precursor outburst and the main superoutburst, followed by a short rebrightening. During the rising phase of the main superoutburst, we detected growing superhumps (stage A superhumps) with a period of 0.03409(1) d. During the plateau phase of the superoutburst, superhumps with a shorter period (stage B superhumps) were observed. Using the orbital period and the period of stage A superhumps, we were able to measure the dynamical precession rate of the accretion disk at the 3:1 resonance, and obtained a mass ratio (q) of 0.041(7). This is the first successful measurement of the mass ratio in an AM CVn-type object accomplished by the recently developed stage A superhump method. The value is generally in agreement with that based on the theoretical evolutionary model. The orbital period of J0902 is the longest among those of the outbursting AM CVn-type objects, and a period on the borderline between the outbursting system and the system with a stable cool disk appears to be longer than one supposed.