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EL Aquilae

1927 nova in the constellation Aquila From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

EL Aquilae
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EL Aquilae, also known as Nova Aquilae 1927 was a nova that appeared in 1927. It was discovered by Max Wolf on photographic plates taken at Heidelberg Observatory on 30 and 31 July 1927 when it had a photographic magnitude of 9. Subsequent searches of plates taken at the Harvard College Observatory showed the nova was fainter than magnitude 11.1 on 8 June 1927 and had flared to magnitude 6.4 on 15 June 1927.[5][7] It declined from peak brightness at an average rate of 0.105 magnitudes per day, making it a fast nova, and ultimately dimmed to about magnitude 21.[2] The 14.5 magnitude change from peak brightness to quiescence was unusually large for a nova.[3]

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The light curve of EL Aquilae, plotted from data presented by Duerbeck and Cannon[5][6]

All novae are binary stars, with a "donor" star orbiting a white dwarf so closely that matter is transferred from the donor to the white dwarf. Pagnotta & Schaefer argued that the donor star for the EL Aquilae system is a red giant, based on its position in an infrared color–color diagram.[8] Tappert et al. suggest that Pagnotta & Schaefer misidentified EL Aquilae, and claim that EL Aquilae is probably an intermediate polar, a nova with a main sequence donor star, based on its eruption amplitude and color.[3]

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Notes

  1. The identification of the nova with this object is disputed, and it may actually be a fainter star several arc-seconds away

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