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The distribution of novae in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

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

Abstract

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Some 34 novae have been discovered in the LMC and 14 in the SMC. Historically, the novae seemed to avoid the central bar of the LMC and the main body of the SMC, but with the novae discovered in the past two decades a different picture emerges. The more dramatic situation exists in the SMC where all seven of the most recent novae have occurred in or very near the main body. Indications are that the age of the LMC bar is around 5Gyr (Smecker-Hane et al. 2002), certainly old enough to breed novae. Perhaps the puzzle now is why there have been so many novae in the disk component of the LMC where many HII regions are found.

Type
Part 3. Variable stars as tracers of different stellar populations – galactic and globular clusters, LMC/SMC and Local Group galaxies
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group , 2004 , pp. 184 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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