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When I worked on this system in the summer of 2000 with Retter et al (IAUC 7537) http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/07500/07537.html#Item2 we found a period of 0.13467(2) day, consistent with the findings below. REgards, Lew --- Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > V1494 Aql: eclipsing nova > > Dear Colleagues, > > Based on recent reports by Donn Starkey and Tom Krajci > to VSNET, > V1494 Aql (Nova Aql 1999 No. 2) is comfirmed to be an > eclipsing nova. > The current depths of eclipses are about 0.4 mag, > flat-bottomed and have > typical durations of 30 min. The orbital period is > 0.1346 d. This period > is close to that (0.1384 d) of another eclipsing fast > nova V1668 Cyg > (see e.g. Kaluzny 1990, MNRAS 245, 547), and a > non-eclipsing fast nova > V603 Aql (P=0.1382 d). The eclipse signal can definitely > be tracked to > the 2002 observations reported to VSNET, and was possible > present in 2001 > observations contemporaneously made with Chandra > (vsnet-alert 6905). > The report of linear intrinsic polarization during > outburst (Kawabata > et al. 2001 ApJ 552, 782) would be naturally explained by > the effect of > a high inclination. > > Regards, > Taichi Kato > VSNET Collaboration team >
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