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Table 1

Decay-from-outburst properties of selected dwarf novae.

System P orb M 1 M 2 R d,max W τ dec o
(h) (M) (M) (1010cm) (d) (d/mag) (d/mag)

1 BV Cen 14.67 1.24 1.1 9.76 20.9 5.7 5.47
2 AT Ara 9.01 0.53 0.42 5.354 4.1 2.3 1.98
3 RU Peg 8.99 1.21 0.94 7.05 7.2 3.2 2.75
4 MU Cen 8.21 1.2 0.99 6.586 7.9 3.1 4.15
5 SS Cyg 6.6 0.81 0.55 5.069 6.4 2.5 1.89
6 TWVir 4.38 0.91 0.4 4.168 3.7 0.8 1.82
7 SS Aur 4.33 1.08 0.39 4.462 4.3 1.6 1.48
8 U Gem 4.25 1.2 0.42 4.58 3.2 1.3 1.32

9 EY Cyg 11.02 1.1 0.49 8.201 14.3 4.29 2.83
10 DX And 10.57 1.2 0.8 7.923 12.5 3.47 2.90
11 EX Dra 5.04 0.75 0.56 4.097 ? 2.63 2.01
12 BD Pav 4.30 1.15 0.73 4.307 ? 2.96 1.54
13 IP Peg 3.797 1.16 0.55 4.077 ? 2.16 1.75

14 CU Vel 1.884 1.23 0.15 2.988 4.5 1.1 1.05
15 WX Hyi 1.796 0.9 0.16 2.519 4.0 0.9 1.55
16 Z Cha 1.788 0.84 0.13 2.503 3.7 1.0 1.24
17 VW Hyi 1.783 0.67 0.11 2.292 4.0 0.7 0.90
18 OY Car 1.515 0.64 0.086 2.07 4.7 0.8 0.74
19 Ek TrA 1.509 0.46 0.09 1.775 3.0 0.7 0.50
20 SW UMa 1.364 0.71 0.1 1.987 7.6 0.6 0.49

21 PTF1J0719 0.446 0.5 0.05 0.871 1 0.25 0.79

Notes. Porb is the orbital period, M1 and M2 the primary and secondary masses respectively, Rd,max the maximum disc radius, W the observed outburst width, τdeco the observed decay rate, and the theoretical (Eq. (7)) decay rate for αh = 0.2. Rows: 1−8: U Gem stars from Ak et al. (2002), 9−13: U Gem stars with τdec calculated by authors from light-curves from AFOEV database, 14−20: SU UMa stars from Ak et al. (2002), 21: AM CVn star from Levitan et al. (2011); Porb, M1 and M2 are taken from Ritter & Kolb (2003); Rd,max is calculated according to Eqs. (1), (2).

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