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nova
subject			fact

nova	can become naked eye star
	has energy release 1044 ergs
	has use nova peak brightness distance determination
	has definition A star that brightens suddenly and to an unprecedented degree, creating the impression that a new star has appeared where none was before. Hence the name, from nova for "new". See supernova.
	has definition A star that exhibits a sudden surge of energy, temporarily increasing its luminosity by as much as 14 mag. (Since 1925 novae have been given variable star designations.) Novae are old disk-population stars. Unlike supernovae, novae retain their stellar form and most of their substance after the outburst. All known common novae are found in close binary systems with one component a cool red giant and the other a hot, less massive object which is the seat of the instability.
	has definition A stars that undergoes an explosion during which its brightness increases by up to ten magnitudes. Usually the following phases are distinguished (in order of time): pre-maximum, principal, diffuse enhanced, Orion, nebular and post-nova.
	is a kind of cataclysmic variable
	is a kind of close binary
	is a kind of emission line star
emission line star	has emission line
cataclysmic variable	has synonym eruptive variable
	has synonym explosive variable
	has peak brightness
	has recovery time
	has outburst start time
	has acronym CV
binary star	has number of stars 2
	has orbital period
star	has star surface temperature
	has spectral type
	has V magnitude
	has B magnitude
	has U magnitude
	has position on celestial sphere from the point of view of Earth
	has parallax from the point of view of Earth's orbit
	has proper motion
	has radiation at surface which is diffused out from the hotter core
	has energy source gravitational contraction and or fusion
	has energy production which takes place primarily within the core
	has surface density which depends on luminosity class
	has surface temperature greater than 1000 Kelvin
	has apparent magnitude
	has absolute magnitude
	has age
	has catalog star catalog
	has material hydrogen, helium
	has velocity determined from proper motion and radial velocity
	has mass greater than 0.08 the sun's mass
star system	has abundance half the stars in the solar neighborhood are members of star systems
celestial body	has spectra
variable	has name designated with R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, or Z and the genitive of the latin constellation name RR, RS, RT, RU, RV, RW, RX, RY, or RZ and the genitive of the latin constellation name when the single letter designations are exhausted AA...AZ, BB...BZ, etc. (omitting J), which ends with QQ...QZ and the genitive of the latin constellation namewhen the RR...RZ designations are exhausted V 335, V 336, etc., when the double letter designations are exhausted
	has observational problem some difficulty in distinguishing between various kinds
	has observable variation time scale within a period of decades
	has light curve
	has optical brightness variation 0.2 magnitudes or greater
	has amplitude
physical object	has location or center of gravity
	has angular momentum
	has momentum
	has temperature
	has volume
	has extent

Kinds of nova :

• classical nova (2 kinds, 10 facts)
• dwarf nova (7 kinds, 24 facts) - A short-period binary system consisting of a hot white dwarf (or a hot blue sdBe subdwarf) and a much cooler and slightly more massive late-type main-sequence companion which fills its Roche lobe and is ejecting mass onto the white dwarf through its inner Lagrangian point. (The light from dwarf novae comes from four sources: a white dwarf, a cool main-sequence star, a hot spot, and a disk.) The outbursts are usually assumed to be caused by the explosive nuclear burning of hydrogen-rich material accreted onto the surface of a degenerate star., Cataclysmic variable in which the brightness increases suddenly at intervals ranging from several days to years.
• recurrent nova (3 kinds, 13 facts)
• slow nova (1 kind, 10 facts) - A nova whose light curve shows a much more gradual development - i.e., rise time of several days, maximum of several weeks, slower decline, amplitude only about 10 mag.

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