HS0618+7336 = 1RXS J062518.2+733433, MU Cam

This is a quite typical intermediate polar, with a 19.8min white dwarf spin period. Most IPs do not show much of a long term variation, so I don not expect that this one does, but modest monitoring would be good to check for the occurence of low states.

Literature

Wei, J.Y., Xu, D.W., Dong, X.Y., Hu, J.Y., 1999. An AGN sample with high X-ray-to-optical flux ratio from RASS. I. The optical identification, Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement 139, 575

Araujo-Betancor, S., Gänsicke, B.T., Hagen, H.-J., Rodriguez-Gil, P., Engels, D., 2003. 1RXS J062518.2+733433: A new intermediate polar, Astronomy & Astrophysics 406, 213

Staude, A., Schwope, A.D., Krumpe, M., Hambaryan, V., Schwarz, R., 2003. 1RXS J062518.2+733433: A bright, soft intermediate polar, Astronomy & Astrophysics 406, 253

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