Astronomy:GQ Muscae
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Short description: Nova in the constellation Musca
 A visual band light curve for GQ Muscae. The main plot shows the decline from the 1983 eruption, plotted with data from the AAVSO,[1] Whitelock et al.[2] and Liller.[3] The inset plot (adapted from Narloch et al.[4]) shows the post-eruption variability seen in 1992. | |
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Musca |
| Right ascension | 11h 52m 02.4285s[5] |
| Declination | −67° 12′ 20.9911″[5] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 7.2 Max. 21 Min.[6] |
| Characteristics | |
| Variable type | Nova[6] |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −5.056±0.451[5] mas/yr Dec.: 1.193±0.324[5] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 0.4702 ± 0.2193[5] mas |
| Distance | 2480+3780 −300[6] pc |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
GQ Muscae, also known as Nova Muscae 1983 is a nova in the constellation Musca, which was discovered by William Liller at 03:20 UT on 18 January 1983.[8] At the time of its discovery it was a magnitude ≈7.2 object, and it subsequently faded.[3][9]
GQ Muscae is a binary star system composed of a white dwarf and small star, the donor star, that is about 10% as massive as the Sun. The two orbit each other every 1.4 hours. The white dwarf accumulates material from the donor star until a runaway nuclear thermonuclear reaction erupts, as it did in 1983.[9] GQ Muscae was the first nova from which X-rays were detected.[10]
References
- ↑ "Download Data". AAVSO. https://www.aavso.org/data-download.
- ↑ Whitelock, P. A.; Carter, B. S.; Feast, M. W.; Glass, I. S.; Laney, D.; Menzies, J. W.; Walsh, J.; Williams, P. M. (November 1984). "Infrared and optical observations of Nova Mus 1983". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 211 (2): 421–432. doi:10.1093/mnras/211.2.421. Bibcode: 1984MNRAS.211..421W. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984MNRAS.211..421W. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liller, William (1990). Cambridge Astronomy Guide. Cambridge, United Kingdom: CUP Archive. p. 105. ISBN 0-521-39915-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=yl04AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105.
- ↑ Narloch, W.; Kaluzny, J.; Krzeminski, W.; Pych, W.; Rozyczka, M.; Shectman, S.; Thompson, I. B.; Tomov, T. (January 2014). "New Observations of the Old Magnetic Nova GQ Muscae". Baltic Astronomy 23: 1–7. doi:10.1515/astro-2017-0168. Bibcode: 2014BaltA..23....1N. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014BaltA..23....1N. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Schaefer, Bradley E. (2018). "The distances to Novae as seen by Gaia". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481 (3): 3033–3051. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2388. Bibcode: 2018MNRAS.481.3033S.
- ↑ "GQ Muscae". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=GQ+Muscae.
- ↑ Marsden, Brian G. (20 January 1983). "Nova Muscae 1983". International Astronomical Union Circular (3764). http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/03700/03764.html. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Hachisu, Izumi; Kato, Mariko; Cassatella, Angelo (2008). "A Universal Decline Law of Classical Novae. III. GQ Muscae 1983". The Astrophysical Journal 687 (2): 1236–52. doi:10.1086/591415. Bibcode: 2008ApJ...687.1236H.
- ↑ Duerbeck, H.W. (2009). "New Stars and Telescopes: Nova Research in the Last Four Centuries". Astronomische Nachrichten 330 (6): 568–73. doi:10.1002/asna.200911218. Bibcode: 2009AN....330..568D. http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~laszlo/kepek/400ev_novai.pdf. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
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