Period changes in the Intermediate Polar MU Camelopardalis

  • Park, Jiwon (Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Yoon, Jho-Na (Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Yonggi (Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Andronov, I.L. (Department of High and Applied Mathematics, Odessa National Maritime University)
  • Published : 2015.04.10

Abstract

Period changes found in the 10 years CCD BVR photometry data (2005 - 2014) of the Intermediate Polar MU Cam will be discussed. The timings of extrema of the data are determined and the new ephemeris for the spin period and orbital period have been calculated by using multi-periodic approximation as follows: BJD(orb)=2454085.46(19)+0.19664 $10(26){\cdot}E$ and BJD(spin)=2454085.50725(91)+0.013740942(13) ${\cdot}$ $E-1.51(10){\times}10^{-12}{\cdot}E^2$. The O-C diagram shows an increasing of the spin period as $P=-2.20(14){\cdot}10^{-12}s/s$. It is also found in MU Cam that the white dwarf's rotation seems to be switched from a state of spin-down to spin-up by the white dwarf's equilibrium spin period in 2005.

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