Multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a – one of the brightest novae ever observed

Author:

Aydi E12,Page K L3,Kuin N P M4,Darnley M J5ORCID,Walter F M6,Mróz P7,Buckley D A H1,Mohamed S12,Whitelock P12ORCID,Woudt P2,Williams S C85ORCID,Orio M910,Williams R E11,Beardmore A P3,Osborne J P3,Kniazev A11213,Ribeiro V A R M141516,Udalski A7,Strader J17,Chomiuk L17

Affiliation:

1. South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, 7935 Observatory, South Africa

2. Astronomy Department, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa

3. X-ray and Observational Astronomy Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

4. University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK

5. Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2 Liverpool Science Park, Liverpool, L3 5RF, UK

6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA

7. Warsaw University Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland

8. Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK

9. INAF–Osservatorio di Padova, vicolo dell’ Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy

10. Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, 475 N. Charter Str., Madison, WI 53704, USA

11. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

12. Southern African Large Telescope Foundation, PO Box 9, 7935 Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

13. Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachai-Circassia 369167, Russia

14. CIDMA, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

15. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

16. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Botswana International University of Science & Technology, Private Bag 16, Palapye, Botswana

17. Center for Data Intensive and Time Domain Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Abstract

Abstract We report on multiwavelength observations of nova Small Magellanic Cloud Nova 2016-10a. The present observational set is one of the most comprehensive for any nova in the Small Magellanic Cloud, including low-, medium-, and high-resolution optical spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry from Southern African Large Telescope, Folded Low-Order Yte-Pupil Double-Dispersed Spectrograph, and Southern Astrophysical Research; long-term Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment V- and I-bands photometry dating back to 6 yr before eruption; Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System optical and near-IR photometry from ∼11 d until over 280 d post-eruption; Swift satellite X-ray and ultraviolet observations from ∼6 d until 319 d post-eruption. The progenitor system contains a bright disc and a main sequence or a sub-giant secondary. The nova is very fast with t2 ≃ 4.0 ± 1.0 d and t3 ≃ 7.8 ± 2.0 d in the V band. If the nova is in the SMC, at a distance of ∼61 ± 10 kpc, we derive MV, max ≃ −10.5 ± 0.5, making it the brightest nova ever discovered in the SMC and one of the brightest on record. At day 5 post-eruption the spectral lines show a He/N spectroscopic class and an Full Width at Half Maximum of ∼3500 km s−1, indicating moderately high ejection velocities. The nova entered the nebular phase ∼20 d post-eruption, predicting the imminent super-soft source turn-on in the X-rays, which started ∼28 d post-eruption. The super-soft source properties indicate a white dwarf mass between 1.2  and 1.3 M⊙ in good agreement with the optical conclusions.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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