Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-03-30
Astrophys.J.701:L119-L122,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/L119
A significant fraction of novae exhibit a series of rebrightenings on the decline branch of their light curves. We use visual observations to study this phase in several well-observed novae. We find that these rebrightenings are isolated flare-like events on otherwise smooth light curves and we show that in most novae in our sample the time intervals between consecutive flares gradually increase as a geometric series; rebrightenings are equally spaced in logarithmic time. We also find a correlation between the rate of increase in the time between rebrightenings with the speed class of the nova in the sense that slower novae tend to increase the time intervals faster. We attribute these rebrightenings to instabilities in the envelope hydrogen burning and we mention other cases of such timing pattern in astronomy and natural sciences in general.
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