The observations of BH Vir were carried out on 9 nights in April-May 1991, with the 60 cm reflecting
telescope at Yunnan observatory, the Sinica Academy of Sciences, in Johnson's B and V fitters.
BD-12897 (F5) was chosen as the comparison star and BD-1
2868 (F8) as the check star.
Both stars were constant inside the observational errors on all nights. The intrinsic errors of one
magnitude difference (variable - comparison) are
(B) and
(V). These
observations and the reduction procedure are published separately (Xiang & Liu 1997).
Table 1 presents minimum times for BH Vir calculated with our observations. Our minimum times
were obtained with the method of quadratic fitting. All the times of 23 primary minimum and 22 secondary
minimum of Table 1 and archival sources (Scaltriti et al. 1985; Arévalo et al.
1987) were fitted with both linear and second order ephemeris. Considering the primary and
secondary data both separately and combined, we can discard the second order terms, because their errors
become larger than the coefficients. No significant difference was found from analyzing the primary and
secondary minimum separately, either, indicating a constant period. The linear ephemeris found was:
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JD(HEL) | E | Min | O-C |
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48360.1389 | 12551.5 | II | -0.0036 |
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48362.1816 | 12554.0 | I | -0.0025 |
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48389.1385 | 12587.0 | I | -0.0029 |
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48396.0866 | 12595.5 | II | +0.0019 |
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