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The Dwarf Nova SY Cancri and its Environs

Volume 46 number 1 (2018)

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Arlo U. Landolt
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001; landolt@phys.lsu.edu Visiting astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomical Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.
James L. Clem
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001 (Current address: Department of Physics, Grove City College, Grove City, PA 16127); jclem@phys.lsu.edu Visiting astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomical Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.

Abstract

Multicolor UBVRI photometry, collected intermittedly over a period of 22 years, is presented for the dwarf nova SY Cancri. Additional UBVRI photometry for a handful of sequence stars in the vicinity of SY Cancri is also presented.