A Hubble Space Telescope survey for novae in M87. III. Are novae good standard candles 15 days after maximum brightness?

Michael M. Shara, Trisha F. Doyle, Ashley Pagnotta +13

Ten weeks of daily imaging of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has yielded 41 nova light curves of unprecedented quality for extragalactic cata…