Recent Papers on CVs

For new papers on CVs see arxiv.org astro-ph

Updated April 15, 2026

Balmer decrements as a new diagnostic for period-bounce

Cataclysmic Variable stars

Santiago Hernández-Díaz, Beate Stelzer and Daniela Muñoz-Giraldo

Disk instability model incorporating a variable inner disk radius in SS Cyg and U Gem

Mariko Kimura, Osaki Yoji

Detection of a molecular hydrogen envelope around nova GK Persei

D.P.K. Banerjee, A. Evans, T. Liimets, C.E. Woodward, T.R. Geballe, V. Joshi, S. Starrfield

Accreting White Dwarfs: An Unreview

Simone Scaringi, Christian Knigge and Domitilla de Martino

The accretion discs in WZ Sge-type stars in deep quiescence. How do they outburst?

Vitaly Neustroev, Paula Kvist, Miikka Siitonen, Veera Vuolteenaho

V515 And: An Intermediate Polar in the Period Gap Exhibiting Outbursts

Srinivas M Rao, Jeewan C Pandey, Nikita Rawat, Simone Scaringi, Arti Joshi, David A. H. Buckley, Ajay Kumar Singh

Orbital Period Changes of Recurrent Nova T Pyxidis Demonstrate that M_ejecta >> 11.3xM_accreted and Is Not a Type Ia Supernova Progenitor

Bradley E. Schaefer 

Superhumps in active dwarf novae. Part I: ER Ursae Majoris

K. Bakowska, B. Kirpluk, P. Zielinski, M. Motylinski, A. Gurgul, J. Golonka, K. Szyszka

KL Dra as a Benchmark Laboratory for Accretion-Disk Physics: Constraints from TESS and Ground-Based Surveys

Luis E. Salazar Manzano, Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval, Jean-Marie Hameury, Craig O. Heinke, Iwona Kotko, Thomas J. Maccarone, Manuel Pichardo Marcano

CV artwork courtesy Darren Baskill