Dwarf novae

On this website we present a database with the known properties of light curves of a large sample of dwarf novae.

The publication presenting the catalogue and our first results of its analysis has just been accepted for publication! It is available on the NASA Astrophysics Data System under this LINK.

The data was collected from the catalogue of Downes et al. (2001), Ritter and Kolb (2003), and Patterson (2011). The catalogue was further expanded by the analysis of the following photometric data:

• Light curves from the database with amateur observations of the American Association of Variable Star Observers for 357 objects.
• 43 dwarf novae of the OGLE team: three of them located in the Galactic bulge (Poleski et al, 2011) and forty more in the OGLE-III Galactic disk fields (Mroz et al, 2013).
• Light curves from the NASA's Kepler satellite for six objects presented by Cannizzo et al. (2012), Ramsay et al. (2012) and Kato and Osaki (2013).
• Light curves from the database with amateur observations of the Center for Backyard Astrophysics for four objects.
• Additional photometric data from our previous observational campaigns for eight objects, which for a change was not publicly available, so we make it accessible here:
  • IX Draconis from Otulakowska-Hypka et al. (2011), Light Curve: here.
  • SDSS J162520.29+120308.7 from Olech et al. (2011), Light Curve: here.
  • SDSS J210014.12+004446.0 from Olech et al. (2009), Light Curve: here.
  • DI Ursae Majoris from Rutkowski et al. (2009), Light Curve: here.
  • RZ Leo Minoris from Olech et al. (2008), Light Curve: here.
  • SS Ursae Minoris from Olech et al. (2006), Light Curve: here.
  • TT Bootis from Olech et al. (2004), Light Curve: here.
  • KS Ursae Majoris from Olech et al. (2003), Light Curve: here.

The project is supported by Polish National Science Center grant awarded by decision number DEC-2011/03/N/ST9/03289.