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A 9-Month Hubble Space Telescope Near-UV Survey of M87. I. Light and Color Curves of 94 Novae, and a Re-determination of the Nova Rate
Michael M. Shara, Alec M. Lessing, Rebekah Hounsell +10
M87 has been monitored with a cadence of 5 days over a 9 month-long span through the near-ultraviolet (NUV:F275W) and optical (F606W) filters of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) of t…
A unified theory of cataclysmic variables from self-consistent numerical simulations
Yael Hillman, Michael M. Shara, Dina Prialnik +1
The hydrogen-rich envelopes accreted by white dwarf stars from their red dwarf companions lead to thermonuclear runaways observed as classical nova eruptions peaking at up to 1 Mil…
The supersoft X-ray transient ASASSN-16oh as a thermonuclear runaway without mass ejection
Yael Hillman, Marina Orio, Dina Prialnik +3
The supersoft X-ray and optical transient ASASSN-16oh has been interpreted by Maccarone et al. (2019) as having being induced by an accretion event on a massive white dwarf, resemb…
The Masses and Accretion Rates of White Dwarfs in Classical and Recurrent Novae
Michael M. Shara, Dina Prialnik, Yael Hillman +1
Models have long predicted that the frequency-averaged masses of white dwarfs in Galactic classical novae are twice as large as those of field white dwarfs. Only a handful of dynam…
An Extensive Grid of Models Producing Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars
Ofer Yaron, Dina Prialnik, Attay Kovetz +1
Horizontal branch (HB) morphology is a complex multiple-parameter problem. Besides the metallicity, two other leading parameters are the mass loss rate (MLR) and the initial He abu…
A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Novae in M87. II. Snuffing out the Maximum Magnitude - Rate of Decline Relation for Novae as a Non-Standard Candle, and a Prediction of the Existence of Ultrafast Novae
Michael M. Shara, Trisha Doyle, Tod R. Lauer +9
The extensive grid of numerical simulations of nova eruptions of Yaron et al.(2005) first predicted that some classical novae might deviate significantly from the Maximum Magnitude…