Mid-Cycle Observations of CR Boo and Estimation of the System’s Parameters

We present observations (with NAO Rozhen and AS Vidojevica telescopes) of the AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binary star CR Bootis (CR Boo) in the UBV bands. The data were obtained in two nights in July 2019, when the V band brightness was in the range of 16.1–17.0 mag. In both nights, a variability for a period of 25 ± 1 min and amplitude of about 0.2 magnitudes was visible. These brightness variations are most likely indications of “humps”. During our observational time, they appear for a period similar to the CR Boo orbital period. A possible reason of their origin is the phase rotation of the bright spot, placed in the contact point of the infalling matter and the outer disc edge. We estimated some of the parameters of the binary system, on the base of the observational data.

A low complexity partial transmit sequence approach based on hybrid segmentation scheme

The partial transmit sequences (PTS) is regarded as a promising scheme for inhibiting ‎the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem in the orthogonal frequency division ‎multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The PTS scheme relies on partitioning the ‎data sequence into subsets and weighting these subsets by a group of the phase rotation ‎factors. Although the PTS can efficiently reduce the high PAPR value, a great ‎computational complexity (CC) level restricts the utilization of the PTS scheme in practical ‎applications. In PTS, there are three common types of segmentation schemes; ‎interleaving (IL-PTS), pseudo-random (PR-PTS), and adjacent (Ad-PTS) schemes. This ‎paper presents a new algorithm named hybrid pseudo-random and interleaving cosine wave shape ‎‎(H-PRC-PTS) by combining the PR-PTS scheme and the symmetrical ‎interleaving cosine wave shape (S-IL-C-PTS) scheme which was proposed in our previous ‎work. The results indicate that the suggested algorithms can ‎diminish the PAPR value like the PR-PTS scheme, whereas the CC level is reduced significantly.