Abstract
ABSTRACTTaking advantage of the unparalleled quantity and quality of high-cadence Kepler light curves of several dwarf novae, the strength of the flickering and the high-frequency spectral index of their power spectra are investigated as a function of magnitude around the outburst cycle of these systems. Previous work suggesting that the flickering strength (on a magnitude scale) is practically constant above a given brightness threshold and only rises at fainter magnitudes is confirmed for most of the investigated systems. As a new feature, a hysteresis in the flickering strength is seen in the sense that at the same magnitude level flickering is stronger during decline from outburst than during the rise. A similar hysteresis is also seen in the spectral index. In both cases, it can qualitatively be explained under plausible assumptions within the disc instability model model for dwarf nova outbursts.
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