V5668 Sagittarii, also known as Nova Sagittarii 2015 Number 2 was the second and brighter of two novae in the southern constellation of Sagittarius in 2015 (the first was V5667 Sagittarii, reported on 12 February 2015[6]). It was discovered by John Seach of Chatsworth Island, New South Wales, Australia on 15 March 2015 with a DSLR patrol camera. At the time of discovery it was a 6th magnitude star.[7][8] It peaked at magnitude of 4.32 on March 21, 2015, making it visible to the naked eye.
 The shell of V5668 Sagittarii imaged at 230 GHz with the ALMA. The image has been convolved with a gaussian function to make it match the resolution of the HST at the wavelength of Hα. The major tick marks are separated by 0.1 arc seconds. From Diaz et al. (2018)[1] | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Sagittarius |
| Right ascension | 18h 36m 56.84s |
| Declination | −28° 55′ 39.8″ |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.2 (max) – 16.0[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Variable type | Nova[3] |
| Astrometry | |
| Distance | 5,020[4] ly (1,540 pc) |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
V5668 Sagittarii's peak brightness was followed by a series of fluctuations in brightness, then a strong decline of 7 magnitudes during June as the nova went through a dust formation phase.[4] The light curve for this event is very similar to the DQ Herculis intermediate polar, and it shows a coincident oscillation in X-ray flux with a period of 71±2 s due to rotation of the white dwarf. The white dwarf and its companion star are surrounded by a dusty shell of ejected material.[9]
In 2016 Banerjee et al. showed that 107 days after the nova outburst, its dust-dominated SED was well approximated by an 850 K blackbody spectrum. That temperature, along with infrared flux measurements, allowed them to calculate the mass of the dust shell to be 2.7 × 10−7 M☉ , and the mass of the entire shell to be 2.7 to 5.4 × 10−5 M☉ . The angular diameter of the dust shell was estimated to be 42 milliarcsec which, along with the time since outburst and the measured expansion velocity of 530 km/sec, allowed the distance, 1.54 kpc, to be calculated.[4]
Two and a half years after the nova event, the ALMA array, operating in the 230 GHz mm-wave radio band, observed a clumpy, roughly circular nova remnant surrounding V5668 Sagittarii. It was about one half arc second in diameter at that time, and was well resolved by the interferometer.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Diaz, Marcos P.; Abraham, Zulema; Ribeiro, Val ́erio A.R.M.; Beaklini, Pedro P.B.; Takeda, Larissa (October 2018). "The structure of a recent nova shell as observed by ALMA". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480 (1): L54–L57. arXiv:1808.01848. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.480L..54D. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/sly121.
- ^ Samus, N. N.; et al. (2017). "General Catalogue of Variable Stars". Astronomy Reports. 5.1. 61 (1): 80–88. Bibcode:2017ARep...61...80S. doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085. S2CID 125853869.
- ^ Özdönmez, Aykut; Ege, Ergün; Güver, Tolga; Ak, Tansel (May 2018). "A new catalogue of Galactic novae: investigation of the MMRD relation and spatial distribution". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476 (3): 4162–4186. arXiv:1802.05725. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.476.4162O. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty432.
- ^ a b c Banerjee, D. P. K.; et al. (January 2016). "Near-infrared studies of the carbon monoxide and dust-forming Nova V5668 Sgr". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 455 (1): L109–L113. arXiv:1510.04539. Bibcode:2016MNRAS.455L.109B. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slv163.
- ^ "V5668 Sgr". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ Nishiyama, K.; Kabashima, F.; Kojima, T.; Walter, F.M. (July 2015). "V5667 Sagittarii = N Sgr 2015 (No. 1) = Pnv J18142514-2554343". IAU Circular. 9274: 3. Bibcode:2015IAUC.9274....3N. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Seach, J. (March 2015). Green, D. W. E. (ed.). "Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 = Pnv J18365700-2855420". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams. 4080: 1. Bibcode:2015CBET.4080....1S.
- ^ Macrobert, Alan (18 March 2015). "Nova (Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2) Erupts in Sagittarius". Sky & Telescope. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Harvey, E. J.; et al. (March 2018). "Polarimetry and spectroscopy of the "oxygen flaring" DQ Herculis-like nova: V5668 Sagittarii (2015)". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 611: 15. arXiv:1802.00224. Bibcode:2018A&A...611A...3H. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731741. S2CID 43919676. A3.
Further reading
edit- Elizabeth O. Waagen. "Alert Notice 512: Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 = PNV J18365700-2855420 [V5668 Sgr]". aavso.org. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- Watson, Christopher. "VSX : Detail for V5668 Sgr". aavso.org. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- "Nova Sagittarii: What a Long, Strange Fade It's Been - Sky & Telescope". Sky & Telescope. skyandtelescope.com. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 2016-12-08.