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Magellanic Cloud novae and the peak magnitude vs rate-of-decline relationship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

William Liller  and
Raquel Yumi Shida
William Liller
Affiliation:
Center for Nova Studies, Casilla 5022 Reñaca, Viña del Mar, Chile
Raquel Yumi Shida
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomia, IAG/USP, Rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária, 05508-900 São Paulo SP, Brazil

Abstract

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Studying classical novae in the Magellanic Clouds has at least three huge advantages: (1) their distances are well-known; (2) the interstellar extinction is small and reasonably well known; and (3) an abundance of novae (47 as of 2003 September 15) have been discovered in the two clouds. Consequently, we will investigate in this paper one of the most important characteristics of novae: the relationship between the absolute magnitudes of the nova outbursts at maximum brightness and their rate of decline, often referred to as the MMRD.

Type
Part 9. Evolutionary and pulsation properties of variable stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group , 2004 , pp. 530 - 534
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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