GQ Muscae

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| name = GQ Muscae

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| caption = A visual band light curve for GQ Muscae. The main plot shows the decline from the 1983 eruption, plotted with data from the AAVSO, Whitelock et al. and Liller. The inset plot (adapted from Narloch et al.) shows the post-eruption variability seen in 1992.

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{{Starbox observe

| epoch = J2000

| constell = Musca

| ra = {{RA|11|52|02.4285}}

| dec = {{DEC|-67|12|20.9911}}

| appmag_v = 7.2 Max.
21 Min.

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| variable = Nova

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| radial_v =

| prop_mo_ra = {{val|−5.056|0.451}}

| prop_mo_dec = {{val|1.193|0.324}}

| parallax = 0.4702

| p_error = 0.2193

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| dist_pc = {{val|2480|3780|300}}

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| names = {{odlist | name=AAVSO 1147-66 | name2=Nova Mus 1983 | Gaia DR2=5236081560713688448 }}

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| Simbad = GQ+Mus

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GQ Muscae, also known as Nova Muscae 1983 is a nova in the constellation Musca, which was discovered by William Liller at 03:20 UT on 18 January 1983. At the time of its discovery it was a magnitude ≈7.2 object, and it subsequently faded.

GQ Muscae is a binary star system composed of a white dwarf and small star, the donor star, that is about 10% as massive as the Sun. The two orbit each other every 1.4 hours. The white dwarf accumulates material from the donor star until a runaway nuclear thermonuclear reaction erupts, as it did in 1983. GQ Muscae was the first nova from which X-rays were detected.

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Narloch |first1=W. |last2=Kaluzny |first2=J. |last3=Krzeminski |first3=W. |last4=Pych |first4=W. |last5=Rozyczka |first5=M. |last6=Shectman |first6=S. |last7=Thompson |first7=I. B. |last8=Tomov |first8=T. |title=New Observations of the Old Magnetic Nova GQ Muscae |journal=Baltic Astronomy |date=January 2014 |volume=23 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1515/astro-2017-0168 |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014BaltA..23....1N |access-date=30 January 2022|arxiv=1401.7177 |bibcode=2014BaltA..23....1N |s2cid=119291924 }}

{{cite journal |last1=Whitelock |first1=P. A. |last2=Carter |first2=B. S. |last3=Feast |first3=M. W. |last4=Glass |first4=I. S. |last5=Laney |first5=D. |last6=Menzies |first6=J. W. |last7=Walsh |first7=J. |last8=Williams |first8=P. M. |title=Infrared and optical observations of Nova Mus 1983 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=November 1984 |volume=211 |issue=2 |pages=421–432 |doi=10.1093/mnras/211.2.421 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1984MNRAS.211..421W }}

{{cite web |title=Download Data |url=https://www.aavso.org/data-download |website=aavso.org |publisher=AAVSO |access-date=1 October 2021}}

{{cite journal|last=Duerbeck|first=H.W.|date=2009|title=New Stars and Telescopes: Nova Research in the Last Four Centuries|journal=Astronomische Nachrichten|volume=330|issue=6|pages=568–73|url=http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~laszlo/kepek/400ev_novai.pdf|doi=10.1002/asna.200911218|bibcode=2009AN....330..568D|access-date=2014-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924073139/http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~laszlo/kepek/400ev_novai.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}}

{{cite journal|author1=Hachisu, Izumi |author2=Kato, Mariko |author3=Cassatella, Angelo |date=2008|title=A Universal Decline Law of Classical Novae. III. GQ Muscae 1983|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=687|issue=2 |pages=1236–52|bibcode=2008ApJ...687.1236H|arxiv = 0806.4253 |doi = 10.1086/591415 |s2cid=50476380 }}

{{cite journal |last1=Marsden |first1=Brian G. |title=Nova Muscae 1983 |journal=International Astronomical Union Circular |date=20 January 1983 |issue=3764 |url=http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/03700/03764.html |access-date=30 January 2022}}

{{cite book|last=Liller|first=William|title=Cambridge Astronomy Guide|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|date=1990|page=105|isbn=0-521-39915-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yl04AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105}}

{{cite journal | title=The distances to Novae as seen by Gaia | last1=Schaefer | first1=Bradley E. | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume=481 | issue=3 | year=2018 | pages=3033–3051 | arxiv=1809.00180 | bibcode=2018MNRAS.481.3033S | doi=10.1093/mnras/sty2388 | doi-access=free | s2cid=118925493 }}

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Category:Musca

Muscae, GQ

Category:Novae