[vsnet-chat 3974] Re: (fwd) hitorical nova light curves?

["John Isles" <jisles@voyager.net>]

An updated version of Duerbeck's bibliographical catalogue of novae is
included as Chapter 12 of "Classical Novae" edited by M. F. Bode and A.
Evans, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1989.

Best wishes -- John.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Skiff" <bas@lowell.edu>
To: <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 3972] Re: (fwd) hitorical nova light curves?


>      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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