[vsnet-chat 165] Re: AC Sco and others

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Sonja Vrielmann wrote in [vsnet-chat 158]:

> Might that be a selection effect ?
> Forgive me, but I don't know, how usually novae are found, but is it 
> possible, that people observe a region, where a nova was found, more 
> closely than others even weeks and months after the nova outburst ? So, 
> the likelyhood of detecting another nova in this region is possibly
> higher ?

    Yes, I have heard from Japanese nova searchers (or read in popular
astronomy magazines) that at least some of them are using a similar strategy
- plotting historical novae would surely advise where to search first,
though I presume this trend is relatively new to the history of nova
discoveries.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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