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First detection of the growing humps at the rapidly rising stage of dwarf novae AL Com and WZ Sge

First detection of the growing humps at the rapidly rising stage of dwarf novae AL Com and WZ Sge

We report on time-series photometric observations in the earliest stages of superoutbursts of the extreme dwarf novae, AL Com and WZ Sge, which started on 2001 May after the 6 years quiescence and on 2001 July after the 23 years quiescence, respectively. We detected the growth of "early superhumps" during …