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Title: Study of Negative and Positive Superhumps in ER Ursae Majoris
Author: Tomohito Ohshima, Taichi Kato, Elena Pavlenko, Hidehiko Akazawa, Kazuyoshi Imamura, Kenji Tanabe, Enrique de Miguel, William Stein, Hiroshi Itoh, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Pavol A. Dubovsky, Igor Kudzej, Thomas Krajci, Alex Baklanov, Denis Samsonov, Oksana Antonyuk, Viktor Malanushenko, Maksim Andreev, Ryo Noguchi, Kazuyuki Ogura, Takashi Nomoto, Rikako Ono, Shin'ichi Nakagawa, Keisuke Taniuchi, Tomoya Aoki, Miho Kawabata, Hitoshi Kimura, Kazunari Masumoto, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Katsura Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Shiokawa, Sergey Yu. Shugarov, Natalia Katysheva, Irina Voloshina, Polina Zemko, Kiyoshi Kasai, Javier Ruiz, Hiroyuki Maehara, Natalia Virnina, Jani Virtanen, Ian Miller, Boyd Boitnott, Colin Littlefield, Nick James, Tamas Tordai, Fidrich Robaert, Stefono Padovan, Atsushi Miyashíta

We carried out the photometric observations of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova ER UMa during 2011 and 2012, which showed the existence of persistent negative superhumps even during the superoutburst. We performed two-dimensional period analysis of its light curves by using a method called "least absolute shrinkage and selection operator" (Lasso) and "phase dispersion minimization" (PDM) analysis, and we found that the period of negative superhumps systematically changed between a superoutburst and the next superoutburst. The trend of the period change can beinterpreted as reflecting the change of the disk radius. This change of the disk radius is in good agreement with the predicted change of the disk radius by the thermal-tidal instability (TTI) model. The normal outbursts within a supercycle showed a general trend that the rising rate to maximum becomes slower as the next superoutburst approaches. The change can be interpreted as the consequence of the increased gas-stream flow onto the inner region of the disk as the result of the tilted disk. Some of the superoutbursts were found to be triggered by a precursor normal outburst when the positive superhumps appeared to develop. The positive and negative superhumps co-existed during the superoutburst. The positive superhumps were prominent only during four or five days after the supermaximum, while the signal of the negative superhumps became strong after the middle phase of the superoutburst plateau. A simple combination of the positive and negative superhumps was found to be insufficient in reproducing the complex profile variation. We were able to detect the developing phase of positive superhumps (stage A superhumps) for the first time in ER UMa-type dwarf novae. Using the period of stage A superhumps, we obtained a mass ratio of 0.100(15), which indicates that ER UMa is on the ordinary evolutional track of CVs.

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Title: Detection of Change in Supercycles in ER Ursae Majoris
Authors: Polina Zemko (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow State U.), Taichi Kato (Kyoto U.), Sergey Shugarov (Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow State U.)

We examined data on about 20 years of observations of ER UMa available in AAVSO, VSNET, AFOEV, NSVS, VSOLJ databases together with published light curves. The obtained O-C diagram revealed a systematic change of the supercycle (time interval between two successive superotbursts) within 43.6 and 59.2 d. The time-scale of this change variation is from 300 to ~ 1900 d. The number of normal outbursts within the supercycles also varied from 4 to 6 although no strong correlation between this number and supercycle length was found. We suggest that appearance of negative superhumps is responsible for the observed variations of number of normal outbursts. Our results generally confirms the expectations by the thermal-tidal instability theory.

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Title: Discovery of Negative Superhumps during a Superoutburst of January 2011 in ER Ursae Majoris
Authors: Tomohito Ohshima, Taichi Kato, Elena P. Pavlenko, Hiroshi Itoh, Enrique de Miguel, Thomas Krajci, Hidehiko Akazawa, Kazuhiko Shiokawa, William Stein, Alex Baklanov, Denis Samsonov, Oksana Antonyuk, Maksim V. Andreev, Kazuyoshi Imamura, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Hiroyuki Maehara, Javier Ruiz, Shin'ichi Nakagawa, Kiyoshi Kasai, Boyd Boitnott, Jani Virtanen, Ian Miller

We report on a discovery of "negative" superhumps during the 2011 January superoutburst of ER UMa. During the superoutburst which started on 2011 January 16, we detected negative superhumps having a period of 0.062242(9) d, shorter than the orbital period by 2.2%. No evidence of positive superhumps was detected during this observation. This finding indicates that the disk exhibited retrograde precession during this superoutburst, contrary to all other known cases of superoutbursts. The duration of this superoutburst was shorter than those of ordinary superoutbursts and the intervals of normal outbursts were longer than ordinary ones. We suggest a possibility that such unusual outburst properties are likely a result of the disk tilt, which is supposed to be a cause of negative superhumps: the tilted disk could prevent the disk from being filled with materials in the outmost region which is supposed to be responsible for long-duration superoutbursts in ER UMa-type dwarf novae. The discovery signifies the importance of the classical prograde precession in sustaining long-duration superoutbursts. Furthermore, the presence of pronounced negative superhumps in this system with a high mass-transfer rate favours the hypothesis that hydrodynamical lift is the cause of the disk tilt.

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The cataclysmic variable ER Ursae Majoris is in outburst.

Date: 20th June, 2011
Magnitude range: 12.4 - 15.2 V
Period: 20-50 days
Satellite period: 0.06366 days
Type: SU Ursae Majoris

Position(2000): RA=09 47 11.89 | Dec=+51°54'08.7"



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The cataclysmic variable ER Ursae Majoris is in outburst.

Date: 31st May, 2011
Magnitude range: 12.4 - 15.2 V
Period: ? days
Satellite period: 0.06366 days
Type: UGSU

Position(2000): RA=09 47 11.89 | Dec=+51°54'08.7"



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The cataclysmic variable ER Ursae Majoris is in outburst.

Date: 22nd April, 2011
Magnitude range: 12.4 - 15.2 V
Period: ? days
Satellite period: 0.06366 days
Type: UGSU

Position(2000): RA=09 47 11.89, Dec=+51°54'08.7"



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The dwarf nova ER Ursae Majoris is in outburst.

Date: 25th March, 2011
Magnitude range: 12.4 - 15.2 V
Period: ? days
Satellite period: 0.06366 days
Type: UGSU

Position(2000): RA=09 47 11.89, Dec=+51°54'08.7"



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