[vsnet-chat 3972] Re: (fwd) hitorical nova light curves?

[Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu>]

     A good compendium of graphical data of historical novae lightcurves
is in Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's classic book "The Galactic Novae".  This
should be found in most astronomical libraries.  Many of those plots have
the actual data in numerous Harvard Annals from the first half of the 20th
Century.
     A complete list of the novae themselves, with bibliographic
information, can be found in Duerbeck's monograph, which appeared in the
journal "Space Science Reivews" as volume 45 (1987), and also as a separate
book, "A reference catalogue and atlas of galactic novae".
     Lots of stuff published since then in re clearing up "lost" nova IDs,
etc., but these should take care of the most prominent and well-observed
cases.  The first well-observed object in the "astrophysical" era is
probably Nova Aur 1892 = T Aur, which was the first object for which
photographic spectra at a useful dispersion were obtained.  Most of the
primary contemporary papers on that object are indexed in SIMBAD.

\Brian

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