Recovery of the classical nova AR Cir.
Abstract
Nova AR Cir (1906) is shown to be an optical pair with a separation of 3.1 arcsec, composed of a 14-mag K3V star and the 18-mag ex-nova. The light curve and amplitude are compatible with AR Cir being a slow classical nova.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- November 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/265.1.L9
- Bibcode:
- 1993MNRAS.265L...9D
- Keywords:
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- stars: individual: AR Cir - novae;
- cataclysmic variables