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We present the results of the study of the red nova PSN J14021678+5426205 based on the observations carried out with the Russian 6-m telescope (BTA) along with other telescopes of SAO RAS and SAI MSU. To investigate the nova progenitor, we…

We report $R_cI_c$ light curves of 2 novae in the M31 galaxy which were detected in the four year Nainital Microlensing Survey. One of these novae has been tracked from the initial increase in flux while other has been observed during its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Y. C. Joshi , A. K. Pandey , D. Narasimha , Y. Giraud-Héraud , R. Sagar , J. Kaplan

The 135 classical novae that we have discovered in M87 with two $\textit{Hubble Space Telescope}$ imaging surveys appear to be strongly concentrated along that galaxy's jet. Detailed simulations show that the likelihood that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-16 Alec M. Lessing , Michael M. Shara , Rebekah Hounsell , Shifra Mandel , Nava Feder , William Sparks

The relatively nearby spiral galaxy NGC~6946 is one of the most actively star forming galaxies in the local Universe. Ten supernovae (SNe) have been observed since 1917, and hence NGC6946 surely contains a large number of supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Knox S. Long , P. Frank Winkler , William P. Blair

The results of a two decade long $R$-band photometric survey of novae in M31 are presented. From these data, $R$-band light curves have been determined for 180 novae with data sufficient for estimating peak brightness and subsequent rate of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 J. Grace Clark , Kamil Hornoch , Allen W. Shafter , Hana Kučáková , Jan Vraštil , Peter Kušnirák , Marek Wolf

There is a longstanding discrepancy between the observed Galactic classical nova rate of $\sim 10$ yr$^{-1}$ and the predicted rate from Galactic models of $\sim 30$--50 yr$^{-1}$. One explanation for this discrepancy is that many novae are…

We report a series of extensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of the luminous M31 nova M31N 2007-11d. Our photometric observations coupled with previous measurements show that the nova took at least four days to reach peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. W. Shafter , A. Rau , R. M. Quimby , M. M. Kasliwal , M. F. Bode , M. J. Darnley , K. A. Misselt

We report the initial results from an ongoing multi-year spectroscopic survey of novae in M33. The survey resulted in the spectroscopic classification of six novae (M33N 2006-09a, 2007-09a, 2009-01a, 2010-10a, 2010-11a, and 2011-12a) and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 A. W. Shafter , M. J. Darnley , M. F. Bode , R. Ciardullo

Ten weeks of daily imaging of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has yielded 41 nova light curves of unprecedented quality for extragalactic cataclysmic variables. We have recently used these light curves…

We report the results of our statistical study of the POINT-AGAPE CNe catalogue. The first Sloan $r'$ and $i'$ analysis of the MMRD relationship in M31 is performed using the resulting POINT-AGAPE CN catalogue. Good fits are produced to the…

This work presents the first optical imaging catalogue of resolved Galactic nova remnants. It compiles images from proprietary observations carried out at the Nordic Optical Telescope and public archives using different telescopes and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Edgar Santamaria , Martin A. Guerrero , Gerardo Ramos-Larios , Jesus A. Toala , Laurence Sabin

This paper reports on a search for new classical nova candidates in the M81 galaxy based on archival, as well as recent, new images. We used images from 1999-2007 to search for optical transients in M81. The positions of the identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Hornoch , P. Scheirich , P. M. Garnavich , S. Hameed , D. A. Thilker

The nearby irregular galaxy NGC4449 has a star formation rate of about 0.4 solar masses/yr and should host of order 70 SNRs younger than 20,000 years, a typical age for SNRs expanding into to an ISM with unit density to reach the radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-09 P. Frank Winkler , Knox S. Long , William P. Blair

We present the first measurement of the rate of Type Ia supernovae at high redshift. The result is derived using a large subset of data from the Supernova Cosmology Project. Three supernovae were discovered in a surveyed area of 1.7 square…

A bright Nova in Centaurus was discovered on Dec 2, 2013 at magnitude V=5.5. Its luminosity reached mv=3.8 from Dec 5 to 7, becoming the brightest Nova of 2013 and of the last decades. On Dec 14 it brightened at mv=3.2. The observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 Costantino Sigismondi

In our preceding paper, Liverpool Telescope data of M31 novae in eruption were used to facilitate a search for their progenitor systems within archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data, with the aim of detecting systems with red giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 S. C. Williams , M. J. Darnley , M. F. Bode , A. W. Shafter

The Galactic nova rate is intimately linked to our understanding of its chemical enrichment and progenitor channels of Type Ia supernovae. Yet past estimates have varied by more than an order of magnitude ($\approx10-300$ yr$^{-1}$) owing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Liam Zuckerman , Kishalay De , Anna-Christina Eilers , Aaron M. Meisner , Christos Panagiotou

The positions of more than 1300 nova eruptions in M31 catalogued through the end of calendar year 2025 have been compared in order to identify recurrent nova candidates. The work extends the study of Shafter et al. (2015) who identified a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Allen W. Shafter , Kamil Hornoch

We present the discovery of 48 new and the analysis of 55, including 7 previously discovered, dwarf galaxy candidates around the giant spiral galaxy NGC~2997 using deep $BVI$ images from the KMTNet Supernova Program. Their $V$-band central…

The population of classical novae in the Magellanic Clouds was poorly known because of a lack of systematic studies. There were some suggestions that nova rates per unit mass in the Magellanic Clouds were higher than in any other galaxy.…