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A Century of Novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Allen W. Shafter
A comprehensive study of novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is presented. A total of 66 nova eruptions have been reported in the LMC over the past century ($1926 \unicode{x2…
The Recurrent Nova Population in M31
Allen W. Shafter, Kamil Hornoch
The positions of more than 1300 nova eruptions in M31 catalogued through the end of calendar year 2025 have been compared in order to identify recurrent nova candidates. The work e…
Modern Rate-of-Decline Relations for Novae
Allen W. Shafter
A large sample of and times from the recent compilation of nova properties given in Schaefer (2025) have been analyzed to determine relationships between these two para…
Fundamental Properties of Novae in M31
Allen W. Shafter, Kamil Hornoch
The peak luminosities and rates of decline for a large sample of novae recently published by Clark et al. have been analyzed using the Yaron et al. nova models to estimate fundamen…
An extremely fast fading population II dwarf nova candidate: caught spectroscopically on the rise
Natasha Van Bemmel, Jielai Zhang, Jeff Cooke +14
We present AT2022kak, a rapidly evolving optical transient discovered by the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP). This interesting burst exhibited extremely fast evolution, wi…
Discovery of Two New Eruptions of the Ultrashort Recurrence Time Nova M31N 2017-01e
Allen W. Shafter, Jingyuan Zhao, Kamil Hornoch +15
We report the recent discovery of two new eruptions of the recurrent nova M31N 2017-01e in the Andromeda galaxy. The latest eruption, M31N 2024-08c, reached on 2024 August…