Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 ( ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Lupus |
Right ascension | 15h 29m 01.820s [1] |
Declination | −44° 49′ 40.89″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.6 – 14.8 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Variable type | Nova [3] |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
V407 Lupi, also known as Nova Lupi 2016, was a bright nova in the constellation Lupus discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) on 24.00 September 2016. At the time of its discovery, it had an apparent visual magnitude of 9.1. The ASAS-SN team reported that no object at the nova's location brighter than magnitude 17.5 was seen on images taken four days earlier. [5] Wildly incorrect coordinates (in error by many degrees) were published in the announcement telegram, [5] but corrected in a subsequent telegram. [1] It reached a peak brightness of magnitude 5.6, faintly visible to the naked eye, on 25 September 2016. [6] [7]
V407 Lupi declined from its peak brightness very quickly, fading by 2 magnitudes in less than three days. That is one of the most rapid declines in brightness ever seen in a nova. It is therefore classified as a "very fast" nova in the classification scheme of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. [7] [8]
All novae are binary stars, with a "donor" star orbiting a white dwarf. The two stars are so close to each other that matter is transferred from the donor to the white dwarf. Observations by the satellite TESS detected a variation in the light curve of V407 Lupi indicating an orbital period for the binary system of 3.513 days; [9] it was previously thought to be 3.573 hours, [10] but this has since been disproven. [9] A second periodicity in the light curve was also detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory [7] and has a period of 591.27465 seconds (9.8545775 min), which appears to be the rotation period of the white dwarf. [9] [11] The very rapid decline from peak brightness indicates that the mass of the white dwarf is ≥ 1.25 M☉, not far below the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf masses. The system is probably an intermediate polar nova. [7]
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Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 ( ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Lupus |
Right ascension | 15h 29m 01.820s [1] |
Declination | −44° 49′ 40.89″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.6 – 14.8 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Variable type | Nova [3] |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
V407 Lupi, also known as Nova Lupi 2016, was a bright nova in the constellation Lupus discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) on 24.00 September 2016. At the time of its discovery, it had an apparent visual magnitude of 9.1. The ASAS-SN team reported that no object at the nova's location brighter than magnitude 17.5 was seen on images taken four days earlier. [5] Wildly incorrect coordinates (in error by many degrees) were published in the announcement telegram, [5] but corrected in a subsequent telegram. [1] It reached a peak brightness of magnitude 5.6, faintly visible to the naked eye, on 25 September 2016. [6] [7]
V407 Lupi declined from its peak brightness very quickly, fading by 2 magnitudes in less than three days. That is one of the most rapid declines in brightness ever seen in a nova. It is therefore classified as a "very fast" nova in the classification scheme of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. [7] [8]
All novae are binary stars, with a "donor" star orbiting a white dwarf. The two stars are so close to each other that matter is transferred from the donor to the white dwarf. Observations by the satellite TESS detected a variation in the light curve of V407 Lupi indicating an orbital period for the binary system of 3.513 days; [9] it was previously thought to be 3.573 hours, [10] but this has since been disproven. [9] A second periodicity in the light curve was also detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory [7] and has a period of 591.27465 seconds (9.8545775 min), which appears to be the rotation period of the white dwarf. [9] [11] The very rapid decline from peak brightness indicates that the mass of the white dwarf is ≥ 1.25 M☉, not far below the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf masses. The system is probably an intermediate polar nova. [7]
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)