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We present new results of our photometry for the Herbig Be star HD 52721 obtained from January 16 to March 25, 2013. A new data reduction technique is used. Using this technique, we have also reanalyzed the previous results of our photometry for this object pertaining to the period from March 7 to March 28, 2010. The Be star HD 52721 is known as an eclipsing variable with the period P = 1d. 610. Two photometric minima observed during one period are a peculiarity of its photometric variability. They are separated in phase of the period P by 0.5 and differ from one another in depth by 0m. 04. We have also detected additional minima observed at the phases of maximum brightness. We hypothesize that they can be associated with the existence of local azimuthal inhomogeneities rotating synchronously with the orbital motion of the binary component stars in the circumstellar envelope. When processing our CCD frames, we have applied an efficient CCD-frame rejection method that has allowed the accuracy of observations to be increased considerably. The CCD frames have been further processed using the Apex II software package, which is a universal software platform for astronomical image processing. We justify the need for additional photometric observations of HD 52721 in various color bands to confirm the hypothesis about the existence of azimuthal inhomogeneities in the program binary system and to analyze their physical properties.
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Original Russian Text © S.E. Pavlovskiy, M.A. Pogodin, V.V. Kupriyanov, D.L. Gorshanov, 2015, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 317–327.
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Pavlovskiy, S.E., Pogodin, M.A., Kupriyanov, V.V. et al. New photometric investigation of the Herbig Ae/Be star HD 52721, a close binary system: Evidence for the existence of large-scale azimuthal inhomogeneities. Astron. Lett. 41, 289–298 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773715060079
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