Where have all the novae gone?

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Feb 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006a%26g....47a..29w&link_type=abstract

Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 1.29-1.32.

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An overview is given of the discovery of the brightest naked-eye novae, from early Oriental to modern times. Amateur astronomers appear prominently in the list, but throughout the centuries most well known professional observational astronomers made no such discoveries. After a nova explosion the star usually returns to its pre-nova brightness for at least two centuries. There is increasing evidence that after that the system fades to a very faint state, for perhaps several millennia. The results are described of a high-speed photometric study of southern old novae, carried out over the past five years. Many of the nova remnants show the characteristic periodic modulation of brightness associated with orbital motion. This survey has doubled the number of known orbital periods for these systems.

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