recurrent nova Comparison Table

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recurrent nova comparison table

Subject has reference has distance has acronym has image has definition has erupted in

RS Ophiuchi CV

T Pyxidis Shara, M.M., Zurek, D.R., Williams, R.E., Prialnik, D., Roberto.G., Moffat, A.F.J. : 1997, AJ 114, 258. HST Imagery of the Non-Expanding, Clumped Shell of the Recurrent Nova T Pyxidis from Earth 6000 light-years T Pyx a recurrent nova 1966, 1944, 1920, 1902, and 1890.

WZ Sagittae CV A recurrent DAe old nova (1913 and 1946) with the shortest known orbital period (about 80 minutes). It is almost certainly a close binary system in which mass is being transferred onto a white-dwarf primary.

Subject	has reference	has distance	has acronym	has image	has definition	has erupted in
RS Ophiuchi			CV
T Pyxidis	Shara, M.M., Zurek, D.R., Williams, R.E., Prialnik, D., Roberto.G., Moffat, A.F.J. : 1997, AJ 114, 258. HST Imagery of the Non-Expanding, Clumped Shell of the Recurrent Nova T Pyxidis	from Earth 6000 light-years	T Pyx		a recurrent nova	1966, 1944, 1920, 1902, and 1890.
WZ Sagittae			CV		A recurrent DAe old nova (1913 and 1946) with the shortest known orbital period (about 80 minutes). It is almost certainly a close binary system in which mass is being transferred onto a white-dwarf primary.

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