The rate of nova production in the galaxy.
Abstract
The ongoing PROBLICOM program in the Southern Hemisphere now makes it possible to derive a reliable value for the overall production rate of Galactic novae. The result, 73±24 y-1, indicates that the Galaxy outproduces M31 by a factor of two or three. The authors estimate that the rate of supernova ejecta is one and a half orders of magnitude greater than that of novae in the Galaxy.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- July 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132021
- Bibcode:
- 1987PASP...99..606L
- Keywords:
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- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Novae;
- Star Formation Rate;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- Astrophysics