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    AM Herculis is a binary variable star located in the constellation Hercules. This star, along with the star AN Ursae Majoris, is the prototype for a category...
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    These binary systems usually have orbital periods of under 2.5 hours. DQ Herculis systems are interacting binaries in which a low-mass star transfers mass...
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    (CV) binary star system, originally known as an AM Herculis star after the prototype member AM Herculis. Like other CVs, polars contain two stars: an accreting...
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    than forming a disc. DQ Herculis, also called 'intermediate polars', have a slightly weaker magnetic field than AM Herculis stars; there is an accretion...
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    low-mass star and a strongly magnetic white dwarf. Known as a polar or AM Herculis variable, these produce polarized optical and infrared emissions and...
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    referred to as EF Eridanus) is a variable star of the type known as polars, AM Herculis stars, or magnetic cataclysmic variable stars. Historically it has varied...
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    full accretion disks, while strongly magnetic systems (called polars or AM Herculis systems) exhibit only accretion streams which directly impact the white...
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  • "Updated photometry and orbital period analysis for the polar \objectname{am herculis} on the upper edge of the period gap". The Astrophysical Journal. 774...
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    the Sun based on parallax. It is a cataclysmic variable star of the AM Herculis-type also known as polars. The system comprises an eclipsing white dwarf...
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    after reaching maximum the star had dimmed by 12.5 magnitudes. It is an AM Herculis type star, consisting of a red dwarf secondary depositing a stream of...
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    this system was first discovered in 1987. At the time, it was the 14th AM Herculis star known and only the third system known to eclipse. In systems like...
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    620 light-years away from the Sun, forming a cataclysmic variable of AM Herculis-type. The two stars orbit each other every 2.08 hours and the ultra-short...
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    lines of hydrogen and helium. They identified it as a variable of the AM Herculis type. The system shows a brightness variation of 0.7 magnitude during...
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    astronomers who correctly interpreted the nature of polar stars like AM Herculis. He was a member of Polish Astronomical Society, including in the years...
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    variable of the AM Herculis type. The binary period of 108.6 minutes lay within the range of 100–115 minute periods that a majority of known AM Her systems...
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    magnitude 14.9 down to 20.2, once per orbit. This object, along with AM Herculis, define a class of cataclysmic variables known as polars. The pair consist...
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    112 Herculis is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Hercules. It is dimly visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude...
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    source for X-ray emission. Variable stars Polar (cataclysmic variable) AM Herculis Rosen, S. R.; Mittaz, J. P. D.; Buckley, D. A.; Layden, A. C.; Clayton...
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  • Rho Herculis (ρ Her, ρ Herculis) is a double star in the constellation of Hercules. The apparent magnitudes of the components are 4.510 and 5.398, respectively...
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  • Upsilon Herculis (υ Her) is a solitary star in the constellation Hercules. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.74. Based...
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    Phi Herculis (φ Her) is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Hercules. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 15.99 mas as seen from Earth...
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    Xi Herculis is a solitary star located within the northern constellation of Hercules. The star is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude...
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  • Chi Herculis, Latinized from χ Herculis, is a Sun-like star in the northern constellation of Hercules. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 63.16 mas...
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    Sigma Herculis, Latinized from σ Her, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Hercules. It has a combined apparent visual magnitude of...
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    pole nearer the stars in the constellation Hercules, pointing towards Tau Herculis around 18,400 AD. The celestial pole will then return to the stars in constellation...
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    steeplechase wins, other events specified in parentheses 2021: Monaco Herculis 2022: Rome Golden Gala 2023: Doha Diamond League (3000 m, WL MR) 2023:...
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  • 08 Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic 30 June 1981 40 9 July 2021 Monaco Herculis W 45 50.47 Elisabeth Wahlander  Sweden 14 March 1960 45 21 August 2005...
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    in whether those two stars are (respectively) 33 Capricorni and Delta Herculis or whether they are Chi Capricorni and Phi Capricorni. Liang (state), the...
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    Omega HerculisHerculis, abbreviated Ome Her, ω Her) is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Hercules. Based upon an annual parallax...
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    jump". Calgary Herald. Retrieved July 3, 2012. "Drouin Takes Third at Herculis Monaco". Indiana University. July 20, 2012. Archived from the original...
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