Metodos de determinacao de periodicidades em dados astrofisicos: aplicacao ao objeto CZ Aquilae / Methods of determination of periodicities in astrophysical data - Appliocation to object CZ Aquilae

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

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One way of studing an object in astrophysics is with the time series analysis, where we can characterize the behaviour of object in the past and future. To make this analysis, we use period determination methods. We applied five methods to the cataclysmic variable CZ Aquilae, with the goal to find their orbital period. Photometric and spectroscopic data were analyzed. The photometric data analysis found an orbital period of 0.320273 day and the spectroscopic data analysis found an orbital period of 0.201528 day. We choiced the period found by spectroscopic data analysis because this showed good fits and the photometric data showed an indication of this period can be the period of the system. The CZ Aquilae spectrum, characterized by emission lines in Ha (6562.8 Å) and He I (5876 and 6678 Å), besides the absorption lines attributed to difuse intestellar bands, is typical of a dwarf nova, but we have suspects of this object can be a SW Sex type (as the object dont presents eclipses and almost all SW Sex systems are eclipsing, its difficult to make a more conclusive analysis). We still can say CZ Aquilae would not be a dwarf nova of type SU UMa, because the SU UMa has short periods (more or less two hours). Another features of the system: it has a low galactic latitude, it has an estimated distance of 243 pc (but this value has great uncertaintes). The mass of primary was estimated in the range 0.6 - 1.0 M¤, considering the mass of secondary with the value 0.48 M¤ and the orbital inclination was estimated in the range 37o - 53o.

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fotometria cz aquilae variaveis cataclismicas astrofisica oscilacoes linhas de emissao espectroscopia metodos numericos

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