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Early humps in WZ Sge stars

Early humps in WZ Sge stars

Photometric humps in outburst that are locked with the binary orbital period have been observed exclusively in the early phase of outbursts of WZ Sge stars. It is suggested that this "early hump" phenomenon is the manifestation of the tidal 2:1 resonance in accretion disks of binary systems with extremely …