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A Century of Novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

  • Authors: Allen W. Shafter

Allen W. Shafter 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Light curves for selected novae used for the determination of t2 times. (a) LMCN 1971-03a: V-band light curve from Table II of J. A. Graham & G. Araya (1971a). From these data we estimate a decline rate of 0.091 mag day−1, or t2 = 22 ± 2 days. (b) LMCN 1987-09a: R-band data from R. H. McNaught & G. J. Garradd (1987) yield an initial decline rate of 1 mag day−1 giving t2 = 2.0 ± 0.2 days. (c) LMCN 2009-05a: V-band data from SMARTS. A fit to the first 8 points gives a decline rate of 0.39 mag day−1, with t2 = 51 ± 9 days. (d) LMCN 2013-10a: V-band data from SMARTS (black points). The blue point is estimated from OGLE data (see P. Mróz et al. 2016a; I. Hachisu & M. Kato 2018). The rate of decline is 0.085 mag day−1, corresponding to t2 = 24 ± 3. (e) LMCN 2015-03a: V-band photometry from ASAS-SN (blue points) and SMARTS (black points). A linear fit to the data yields a decline rate of 0.042 mag day−1 and t2 = 49 ± 8 days. (f) LMCN 2016-04a: Peak magnitude from MASTER (E. Gorbovskoy et al. 2016), and the remaining data is I-band photometry from OGLE (black points). Assuming a linear decline of 0.04 mag day−1, yields t2 ≃ 50 ± 10 days.

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