We here present our on-going project to unveil the post-nova population by re-discovering old novae that have been lost after the initial outburst and of which the binary itself is unobserved. We take UBVR photometry for the candidate selection, long-slit spectroscopy to confirm these candidates, and time-resolved spectroscopy to measure the orbital period of the newly confirmed post-novae. Some preliminary results are shown as examples.
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@article{arxiv.1110.1926,
title = {The post-nova population},
author = {Linda Schmidtobreick and Claus Tappert and Alessandro Ederoclite and Nikolaus Vogt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1926},
year = {2011}
}