Optical variability in compact sources

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1 Introduction

Part I Optical Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Bursts

2 Transient optical emission from the error box of the -ray burst of 28 February 1997

3 A Search for Optical Afterglow from GRB970828

4 The Rapid Decay of the Optical Emission from GRB980326 and its Possible Implications

Part II Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Variables

5 The Eclipsing Cataclysmic Variable GS Pavonis: Evidence for disk radius changes

6 SW Sextantis in an excited, low state

7 A spectrophotometric study of RW Trianguli

8 3-D Spectral Eclipse Mapping of the Cataclysmic Variable IP Pegasi

Part III The Faint Sky Variability Survey

9 The Faint Sky Variability Survey¹

10 Nederlandse Samenvatting

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