Photometric histories of recurrent novae Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Schaefer B.E.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

I collect virtually all photometry of the 10 known galactic recurrent novae (RNe) and their 37 known eruptions. This consists of my modern measures of nearly all archival plates (providing the only data for half of 37 known eruptions), my own 10000 CCD magnitudes from 1987 to present (providing virtually all of the magnitudes in quiescence for seven RNe), over 140000 visual magnitude estimates recorded by amateur astronomers (who discovered half the known eruptions), and the small scattering of magnitudes from all the literature. From this, I produce various uniform products: (1) BVRIJHK comparison star magnitudes and BV comparison star sequences to cover the entire range of eruption; (2) complete light curves for all eruptions; (3) best-fit B and V light curve templates; (4) orbital periods for all but one RN; (5) exhaustive searches for all missed eruptions; (6) measured discovery efficiencies since 1890; (7) true recurrence time scales; (8) predicted next eruption dates; (9) variations on time scales of minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, and century; (10) uniform distances and extinctions to all RNe; (11) BV colors at peak and UBVRIJHK colors at minimum, all with extinction corrections; and (12) the spectral energy distributions over UBVRIJHK. Highlights of this work include the discoveries of one new RN, six previously unknown eruptions, and the orbital periods for half the RNe. The goal of this work is to provide uniform demographics for answering questions like the "What is the death rate of RNe in our Galaxy?" and "Are the white dwarfs gaining or losing mass over each eruption cycle?." An important use of this work is for the question of whether RNe can be the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae.

Keywords
  1. novae
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. Wide-band photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJS..187..275S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/187/275
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/187/275
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21870275

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/187/275
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/187/275
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/187/275
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/novae?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/novae?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/novae?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/table4?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/table4?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/187/275/table4?

History

2010-07-09T12:17:46Z
Resource record created
2010-07-09T12:17:46Z
Created
2017-06-21T08:22:44Z
Updated

Contact

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