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Comprehensive Photometric Histories of All Known Galactic Recurrent Novae

  • Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer

SCHAEFER 2010 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 187 275.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 51.

V745 Sco light curve. The SMARTS telescopes in Chile have given 512 R-band magnitudes over 246 nights (see Table 22 and Schaefer 2009), with these forming nightly averages which were detrended by normalizing by the yearly average, and then folded on the orbital period and binned in phase. This light curve shows that the maximum at 0.25 phase is significantly brighter than the maximum at 0.75 phase. The scatter in the light curve from phase 0.1–0.6 is relatively small, while the scatter for the remainder of the orbit is relatively high. The minimum at 0.0 phase has all 16 individual magnitudes fainter than 15.9 mag, along with enough not-so-faint points so as to make the binned light curve have comparable depth minima.

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