Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-02-12
Astron.Astrophys. 418 (2004) 869-875
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
A&A in press. Table 3 available only in electronic form from CDS or http://ulisse.pd.astro.it/M31-RV.html
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20035716
The photometric evolution of M31-RV has been investigated on 1447 plates of the Andromeda galaxy obtained over half a century with the Asiago telescopes. M31-RV is a gigantic stellar explosion that occurred during 1988 in the Bulge of M31 and that was characterized by the appearance for a few months of an M supergiant reaching M_bol=-10. The 1988 outburst has been positively detected on Asiago plates, and it has been the only such event recorded over the period covered by the plates (1942-1993). In particular, an alleged previous outburst in 1967 (Sharov 1990, SvAL, 16, 199) is excluded by the more numerous and deeper Asiago plates, with relevant implication for the interpretative models of this unique event. We outline a close analogy in spectral and photometric evolution with those of V838 Mon which exploded in our Galaxy in 2002. The analogy is found to extend also to the closely similar absolute magnitude at the time of the sudden drop in photospheric temperature that both M31-RV and V838 Mon exhibited. These similarities, in spite of the greatly differing metallicity, age and mass of the two objects, suggest that the same, universal and not yet identified process was at work in both cases.
Boschi Federico
Munari Ulisse
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