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POSTER ABSTRACTSP0610. POSTER SESSION IITwo Unusual Binaries in the Old, Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6791Peterson R.C., Institution: Astrophysical Advances, peterson@ucolick.orgThe cluster NGC 6791 is a template for old elliptical galaxies, being 8 Gyr old, metal-rich, andcontaining blue stars formed in binaries that may lead to spuriously low ages for old galaxies.Understanding the cluster's stellar and binary constituents will help to characterize how suchstars are formed and evolve, and what role they play in shaping the spectral energy distributionof old galaxies. Within this old cluster, our GO-13 Kepler program has uncovered two unusualbinaries. One is a triplyeclipsing system of near-main-sequence stars with a ~1.5-day period. Thelight curve is complex, but with spectral monitoring, could constrain geometry, masses, and radiias well as provide the temperatures of detectable components and the distance to the system.This should significantly tighten comparisons of the cluster color-magnitude diagram to thestellar main sequence and turnoff. The other binary is a ~15-day pair of stars midway up thegiant branch that are near or beyond Roche-lobe overflow, whose characterization shouldelucidate when and how mass is transferred between evolved stars.1822011 Kepler Science Conference - NASA Ames Research Center
POSTER ABSTRACTSP0611. POSTER SESSION IIKEPLER OBSERVATIONS OF THE SU UMA CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES V344 LYR, V1504 CYG,AND V447 LYR. M. A. Wood 1 , M. D. Still 2,3 , S. B. Howell 2 , J. K. Cannizzo 4,5 , and A. P. Smale 6 , 1 Department ofPhysics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901 (wood@fit.edu), 2 NASA AmesResearch Center (martin.still@nasa.gov; steve.b.howell@nasa.gov), 3 Bay Area Environmental Research Institute,4 CRESST and Astroparticle Physics Laboratory (john.k.cannizzo@nasa.gov), NASA/GSFC, 5 University of Maryland,Baltimore County, 6 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (alan.p.smale@nasa.gov)We report on the analysis of the Kepler shortcadence(SC) light curve of V344 Lyr (P orb = 2.11 hr)and V1504 Cyg (P orb =1.67 hr) obtained during Q2—Q8, and the SC and long-cadence (LC) light curves ofV447 Lyr (P orb = 3.73 hr) during Q6-Q8. All threesystems are SU UMa cataclysmic variables showingsuperout bursts and superhumps. V344 Lyr and V1504Cyg both show P orb as well as positive and negativesuperhump periodicities. Positive superhumps occurduring superoutbursts and are the result of a disk oscilationdriven to resonance when the disk expands to the3:1 Keplerian co-rotation resonance. The oscillatingdisk precesses in the prograde direction, resulting in afractional period excess a few percent longer than P orband increasing with P orb . The Kepler data are consistentwith the two-source model for positive superhumps,where early in the superoutburst the signal isgenerated by viscous dissipation in the flexing diskitself, and later once the disk has returned to quiescenceis caused by the periodically varying dissipationat the accretion stream impact point as it sweepsaround the rim of the still flexing and asymmetric disk.The negative superhumps are the result ofaccretion onto an accretion disk tilted out of the orbitalplane and precessing in the retrograde direction. Themodulation of the brightness in this case is a functionof the variable depth in the primary potential well ofthe accretion stream bright spot as it sweeps across theface of the tilted accretion disk. For the first time,Kepler data reveal that the precession period of thetilted accretion disk increases between dwarf nova outbursts,and jumps rapidly to shorter period duringdwarf nova outbursts (see Figure 1), providing a probeof the changing mass distribution and viscosity of theaccretion disk as a function of time. Finally, V447 Lyris an eclipsing binary system that shows positive superhumps.It is one of the longest-period eclipsing SUUMa systems, and as such provides a solid anchor tothe superhump period excess versus P orb relation atlarge P orb .Figure 1: Spectrogram of V1504 Cyg for quarters Q2-Q8. The color scale shows the amplitude of log of theresidual counts once the large amplitude dwarf nova outbursts and superoutburst have been subtracted. Notethat during the second year of Kepler observations, the negative superhump signal at ~14.5 c/d is excited andpersists for over 4000 orbits. During that time, the period increases between dwarf nova outbursts and rapidlyjumps to shorter period during outbursts, reflecting the changing moment of inertia of the tilted precessing diskas the disk mass increases and drains, respectively. Intensive studies of the Kepler-field cataclysmic variableshold the promise significant advancement in our understanding of the nature of astrophysical viscosity.2011 Kepler Science Conference - NASA Ames Research Center 183
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