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Kuin, NPM, Page, KL, Mróz, P, Darnley, MJ, Shore, SN, Osborne, JP, Walter, F, Mille, FD, Morrell, N, Munari, U, Bohlsen, T, Evans, AR, Gehrz, RD, Starrfield, S, Henze, M, Williams, SC, Schwarz, GJ, Udalski, A, Szymański, MK, Poleski, R , Soszyński, I, Ribeiro, VARM, Angeloni, R, Breeveld, AA, Beardmore, AP and Skowron, J (2019) The January 2016 eruption of recurrent nova LMC 1968. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491 (1). pp. 655-679. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We present a comprehensive review of all observations of the eclipsing Recurrent Nova LMC 1968 in the Large Magellanic Cloud which was previously observed in eruption in 1968, 1990, 2002, 2010, and most recently in 2016. We derive a recurrence time of 6.2 +/- 1.2 years and provide the ephemerides of the eclipse. In the ultraviolet-optical-IR photometry the light curve appears with a common decline after discovery with high variability right from the first observation around two days after eruption. Spectra from 2016 and 1990 are very similar and are dominated by H and He lines longward of 2000 A. Interstellar reddening is found to be E(B-V) = 0.07+/-0.01. The super soft X-ray luminosity is lower than the Eddington luminosity and the X-ray spectra suggest the mass of the WD is larger than 1.3 Msun. Eclipses in the light curve suggest that the system is at high orbital inclination. On day four after the eruption a recombination wave was observed in Fe II ultraviolet absorption lines. Narrow line components are seen and explained as being due to reionisation of ejecta from a previous eruption. The UV spectrum varies with orbital phase, and so does a component of the He II 1640 A emission line, which leads us to propose that early-on the inner WD Roche lobe might be filled with a bound opaque medium prior to the re-formation of an accretion disk. Both that medium and the ejecta can cause the delay in the appearance of the soft X-ray source.
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2019 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | astro-ph.SR; astro-ph.SR; astro-ph.HE |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2019 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2022 16:30 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stz2960 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11622 |
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