Optical imaging of nova shells and the maximum magnitude-rate of decline relationship

An optical imaging study of recent 30 novae has been undertaken using both ground-based and space-based observations. Resolved shells have been detected around 9 objects in the ground-based data, while another four objects have shells detected by HST observations: for RW UMi, we fail to detect a shell which was observed five years earlier. Images in H-alpha, and when appropriate [O III], are shown, and finding charts for novae without shells are given if no published chart is available. Expansion parallaxes for all systems with shells are derived, and absolute magnitudes for a total of 28 objects are presented, along with a discussion of the maximum magnitude-rate of decline relation. We find that separate linear fits for fast and slow novae may be a better representation of the data than a single, global fit. At minimum, most novae have similar magnitudes as those of dwarf novae at maximum and novalike stars.

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- 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01899.x

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