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J. Smak

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Are disk in dwarf novae during their superoutbursts really eccentric?

The evidence presented earlier by several authors for the substantial disk eccentricity in dwarf novae during their superoutbursts is shown to result either from errors or from arbitrary, incorrect assumptions. In particular, the evidence resulting from hot spot eclipses was based on the assumption that the spot distances are identical with disk radii which is not always correct.

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On the Amplitudes of Superhumps

Amplitudes of bolometric light curves produced by 2D and 3D simulations are used to determine the corresponding visual amplitudes. They turn out to be about 10 times lower than typical amplitudes of superhumps. This means a major failure of the tidal model of superhumps.

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