Discovery of Two New Eruptions of the Ultrashort Recurrence Time Nova M31N 2017-01e

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Main Authors: Shafter, Allen W., Zhao, Jingyuan, Hornoch, Kamil, Kučáková, Hana, Taguchi, Kenta, Zhang, Jiashuo, You, Jia, Wang, Binyu, Xu, Runwei, Wang, Weiye, Ren, Yuqing, Ding, Lanhe, Yan, Xiaochang, Zhang, Mi, Wang, Wei-Hao, Bond, Howard E., Williams, Robert, Zeimann, Gregory R.
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author Shafter, Allen W.
Zhao, Jingyuan
Hornoch, Kamil
Kučáková, Hana
Taguchi, Kenta
Zhang, Jiashuo
You, Jia
Wang, Binyu
Xu, Runwei
Wang, Weiye
Ren, Yuqing
Ding, Lanhe
Yan, Xiaochang
Zhang, Mi
Wang, Wei-Hao
Bond, Howard E.
Williams, Robert
Zeimann, Gregory R.
author_facet Shafter, Allen W.
Zhao, Jingyuan
Hornoch, Kamil
Kučáková, Hana
Taguchi, Kenta
Zhang, Jiashuo
You, Jia
Wang, Binyu
Xu, Runwei
Wang, Weiye
Ren, Yuqing
Ding, Lanhe
Yan, Xiaochang
Zhang, Mi
Wang, Wei-Hao
Bond, Howard E.
Williams, Robert
Zeimann, Gregory R.
contents We report the recent discovery of two new eruptions of the recurrent nova M31N 2017-01e in the Andromeda galaxy. The latest eruption, M31N 2024-08c, reached $R=17.8$ on 2024 August 06.85 UT, $\sim2$ months earlier than predicted. In addition to this recent eruption, a search of archival PTF data has revealed a previously unreported eruption on 2014 June 18.46 UT that reached a peak brightness of $R\sim17.9$ approximately a day later. The addition of these two eruption timings has allowed us to update the mean recurrence time of the nova. We find $\langle T_\mathrm{rec} \rangle = 924.0\pm7.0$ days ($2.53\pm0.02$ yr), which is slightly shorter than our previous determination. Thus, M31N 2017-01e remains the nova with the second shortest recurrence time known, with only M31N 2008-12a being shorter. We also present a low-resolution spectrum of the likely quiescent counterpart of the nova, a $\sim20.5$ mag evolved B star displaying an $\sim14.3$ d photometric modulation.
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spellingShingle Discovery of Two New Eruptions of the Ultrashort Recurrence Time Nova M31N 2017-01e
Shafter, Allen W.
Zhao, Jingyuan
Hornoch, Kamil
Kučáková, Hana
Taguchi, Kenta
Zhang, Jiashuo
You, Jia
Wang, Binyu
Xu, Runwei
Wang, Weiye
Ren, Yuqing
Ding, Lanhe
Yan, Xiaochang
Zhang, Mi
Wang, Wei-Hao
Bond, Howard E.
Williams, Robert
Zeimann, Gregory R.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We report the recent discovery of two new eruptions of the recurrent nova M31N 2017-01e in the Andromeda galaxy. The latest eruption, M31N 2024-08c, reached $R=17.8$ on 2024 August 06.85 UT, $\sim2$ months earlier than predicted. In addition to this recent eruption, a search of archival PTF data has revealed a previously unreported eruption on 2014 June 18.46 UT that reached a peak brightness of $R\sim17.9$ approximately a day later. The addition of these two eruption timings has allowed us to update the mean recurrence time of the nova. We find $\langle T_\mathrm{rec} \rangle = 924.0\pm7.0$ days ($2.53\pm0.02$ yr), which is slightly shorter than our previous determination. Thus, M31N 2017-01e remains the nova with the second shortest recurrence time known, with only M31N 2008-12a being shorter. We also present a low-resolution spectrum of the likely quiescent counterpart of the nova, a $\sim20.5$ mag evolved B star displaying an $\sim14.3$ d photometric modulation.
title Discovery of Two New Eruptions of the Ultrashort Recurrence Time Nova M31N 2017-01e
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07105