Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437

M. M. Shara (), K. Iłkiewicz, J. Mikołajewska, A. Pagnotta, M. F. Bode, L. A. Crause, K. Drozd, J. Faherty, I. Fuentes-Morales, J. E. Grindlay, A. F. J. Moffat, M. L. Pretorius, L. Schmidtobreick, F. R. Stephenson, C. Tappert and D. Zurek
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M. M. Shara: American Museum of Natural History
K. Iłkiewicz: N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
J. Mikołajewska: N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
A. Pagnotta: American Museum of Natural History
M. F. Bode: Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2 Liverpool Science Park
L. A. Crause: South African Astronomical Observatory
K. Drozd: N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
J. Faherty: American Museum of Natural History
I. Fuentes-Morales: Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso
J. E. Grindlay: Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The Institute for Theory and Computation
A. F. J. Moffat: Université de Montréal
M. L. Pretorius: South African Astronomical Observatory
L. Schmidtobreick: European Southern Observatory
F. R. Stephenson: Durham University
C. Tappert: Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso
D. Zurek: American Museum of Natural History

Nature, 2017, vol. 548, issue 7669, 558-560

Abstract: The re-discovery of the binary star system that created the Nova Scorpii AD 1437 stellar outburst shows that it is now a dwarf nova, suggesting that nova systems spend some time as dwarf novae in between larger outbursts.

Date: 2017
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