Astro2020 Science White Paper: A Shocking Shift in Paradigm for Classical Novae
Abstract
The discovery of GeV gamma-rays from classical novae has led to a reassessment of these garden-variety explosions, and highlighted their importance for understanding radiative shocks, particle acceleration, and dust formation in more exotic, distant transients. Recent collaboration between observers and theorists has revealed that shocks in novae are energetically important, and can even dominate their bolometric luminosity. Shocks may also explain long-standing mysteries in novae such as dust production, super-Eddington luminosities, and `flares' in optical light curves. Here, we highlight the multi-wavelength facilities of the next decade that will further test our nova shock model and fulfill the promise of novae as powerful astrophysical laboratories.
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@article{arxiv.1903.08134,
title = {Astro2020 Science White Paper: A Shocking Shift in Paradigm for Classical Novae},
author = {Laura Chomiuk and Elias Aydi and Aliya-Nur Babul and Andrea Derdzinski and Adam Kawash and Kwan-Lok Li and Justin Linford and Brian D. Metzger and Koji Mukai and Michael P. Rupen and Jennifer Sokoloski and Kirill Sokolovsky and Elad Steinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08134},
year = {2019}
}
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Submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey call for science white papers, 7 pages, 2 figures