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The Fast Evolving, Tremendous Blue Superoutburst in ASASSN-21au Reveals a Dichotomy in the Outbursts of Long-period AM CVns

L.E. Rivera Sandoval
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C.O. Heinke
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Y. Cavecchi
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T. Vanmunster
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T. Tordai
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F.D. Romanov
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ASASSN-21au is an ultracompact accreting white dwarf binary (AM CVn type) with a period of ∼58 minutes. Using multiwavelength observations of the system, we discovered a dichotomy in the behavior of outbursts in AM CVns. The binary showed an initial increase in brightness that lasted for at least 82 days, followed by an additional increase that lasted two weeks. Afterward, ASASSN-21au went into superoutburst with a total duration of 19 days, showing an amplitude with respect to quiescence of ∼7.5 mag in g, with a precursor and an echo outburst. A correlation between X-rays, UV, and optical was identified for the first time in an AM CVn during this stage. The color evolution of ASASSN-21au indicates that during the superoutburst the dominant component was the accretion disk. The short duration, large amplitude, and color evolution of the superoutburst agree with expectations from the disk instability model. These characteristics are opposite to those observed in SDSS J080710+485259 and SDSS J113732+405458, which have periods of ∼53 minutes and ∼60 minutes, respectively. The initially slow increase in brightness in the light curve of ASASSN-21au and the behavior after the superoutburst favor a scenario in which changes in the mass-transfer rate led to disk instabilities, while the outburst mechanism of SDSS J080710+485259 and SDSS J113732+405458 has been attributed to enhanced mass transfer alone. Further observations are needed to understand the origin of this dichotomy.
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L.E. Rivera Sandoval, C.O. Heinke, J.M. Hameury, Y. Cavecchi, T. Vanmunster, et al.. The Fast Evolving, Tremendous Blue Superoutburst in ASASSN-21au Reveals a Dichotomy in the Outbursts of Long-period AM CVns. Astrophys.J., 2022, 926 (1), pp.10. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ac3fb7⟩. ⟨hal-03318493⟩
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