Spitzer observations of the 2006 eruption of RS Ophiuchi

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006sptz.prop..270e&link_type=abstract

Spitzer Proposal ID #270

Physics

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The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi erupted on 2006 February 12, its first eruption since 1985. Unlike the case for 'classical' novae, in which the ejected material flows freely away from the site of the explosion, in RS Ophiuchi the ejected material is ploughing its way through a red giant wind. We are monitoring the 2006 eruption with Swift, Chandra, RXTE, XMM, VLA, and VLBA, giving us unprecedented insight into the physics of this interaction, and of the eruption itself. Spitzer is an essential part of this jigsaw, and will reveal the far-IR coronal and fine-structure line emission, the continuum from the hot shocked gas, and the effect of the eruption on the red giant.

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