The recovery of CK VUL (NOVA 1670) the oldest "Old Nova".
Abstract
Comparison of narrow-band H-alpha with continuum plates has yielded the location of CK Vulpeculae, a slow nova which reached-maximum brightness of about three in 1670 and again in 1671. CK Vul affords us the opportunity to study a nova remnant almost two centuries older than any other known. Associated with the central object are two nebulous blobs radiating mostly H-alpha and forbidden N II. These nebulae are probably ejecta of the nova sweeping up interstellar matter.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1086/183826
- Bibcode:
- 1982ApJ...258L..41S
- Keywords:
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- Interstellar Matter;
- Nebulae;
- Novae;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Stellar Radiation;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Astronomy