L'incontro col professore

Lieut.-Col. Robert Knowles

College of Letters (COL)

COL104 Baroque Rome This interdisciplinary history seminar for first-year students focuses on Europe's most famous capital city between 1550 and 1650, a period when Rome was a symbol of religious zeal, artistic creativity, and intellectual repression. We will explore these contradictions and their impact on cultural innovation by taking a close look at daily life in early modern Rome and at the...

Lieut.-Col. J. C. Robertson

The Death of Col. Newcome

Col Have the longest Recorded Positive Superhumps ?

Re-examination of extensive photometric data of TV Col reveals evidence for a permanent positive superhump. Its period (6.4 h) is 16 percent longer than the orbital period and obeys the well known relation between superhump period excess and binary period. At 5.5h, TV Col has an orbital period longer than any known superhumping cataclysmic variable and, therefore, a mass ratio which might be ou...