SIMBAD references

P. A. Woudt and B. Warner, University of Cape Town (UCT), report that 2QZ J142701.6-012310 appears to be a new AM CVn-type cataclysmic variable. High-speed photometry during quiescence (V about 20.3), obtained with the South African Astronomical Observatory 1.9-m telescope (+ UCT CCD camera) on May 15 and 16 has revealed a photometric modulation at 2194 ± 4 s, typical of an AM CVn-type variable. Spectroscopy obtained in quiescence (Croom et al. 2004, MNRAS 349, 1397) and during its January outburst (Rykoff et al., above) shows that the spectrum appears rich in helium, consistent with it being a double-degenerate helium-transferring binary (only the twelfth-known such object).