CLASSICAL NOVAE
CONTENTS NOVAE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE INTRODUCTION DE?NITION OF NOVAE AND RELATED STARS THEORIES OF NOVAE UNTIL THE MID TWENTIETH CENTURY PRE-TELESCOPIC DISCOVERIES, OBSERVATIONS AND CATALOGUES MODERN DISCOVERIES, OBSERVATIONS AND CATALOGUES PHOTOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF NOVAE NOVAE AND RELATED STARS CONCLUDING REMARKS REFERENCES PROPERTIES OF NOVAE: AN OVERVIEW FREQUENCY AND GALACTIC DISTRIBUTION OF NOVAE LIGHT CURVES DURING ERUPTION RELATIONSHIPS AMONG AMPLITUDE, RATE OF DECLINE, ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE AND EXPANSION VELOCITY SPECTRAL EVOLUTION DURING ERUPTION NOVAE AS CLOSE BINARIES RECURRENT NOVAE NOVAE IN QUIESCENCE AND BEFORE ERUPTION MAGNETIC NOVAE RAPID PHOTOMETRIC OSCILLATIONS IN NOVAE CONCLUSIONS THE EVOLUTION OF NOVA-PRODUCING BINARY STARS ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION: OVERVIEW MEAN MASS TRANSFER RATES IN CVS AND SYMBIOTIC STARS A ZEROTH-ORDER MODEL FOR CV EVOLUTION HYDROGEN-BURNING OUTBURSTS AND CRITICAL HELIUM-LAYER MASSES OVER-ABUNDANCES OF HEAVY ELEMENTS IN THE CYCLICAL MODEL MIXING DUE TO ROTATION-INDUCED INSTABILITIES SYMBIOTIC STAR EVOLUTION REMARKS ON CVS AND SYMBIOTIC STARS AS TYPE IA SUPERNOVA PRECURSORS THERMONUCLEAR PROCESSES THE THERMONUCLEAR RUNAWAY INITIAL CONDITIONS FOR THE OUTBURST THE EFFECTS OF THE NUCLEAR REACTIONS AND RATES ON THE OUTBURST MULTI-DIMENSIONAL STUDIES OF THE THERMONUCLEAR RUNAWAY NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN CO AND ONE NOVAE MASS OF THE EJECTA RELATIONSHIP OF CLASSICAL NOVAE TO SUPERNOVAE OF TYPE IA SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION NOVA ATMOSPHERES AND WINDS MODELING NOVA ATMOSPHERES AND SPECTRA RESULTS: THEORY RESULTS: COMPARISON WITH OBSERVATIONS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS OBSERVATIONAL MYSTERIES AND THEORETICAL CHALLENGES FOR ABUNDANCE STUDIES PHOTO-IONIZATION ANALYSIS OF THE EJECTA DUST IN NOVAE: SOME OPEN QUESTIONS MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF A NOVA OUTBURST: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS THE NUCLEAR PERSPECTIVE CLOSING REMARKS RADIO EMISSION FROM NOVAE NATURE AND MEASUREMENT OF RADIO EMISSION FROM NOVAE RADIO THERMAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG FROM AN EXPANDING CLOUD SHELL KINEMATICS DISCUSSION OF SELECTED CLASSICAL NOVAE: ?RST CLASS DATA DISCUSSION OF SELECTED CLASSICAL NOVAE: SECOND CLASS DATA ESTIMATES OF DISTANCE, SHELL MASS AND KINETIC ENERGY RADIO EMISSION FROM RELATED OBJECTS INFRARED STUDIES OF CLASSICAL NOVAE NOVAE EXPLOSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION THE INFRARED TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT OF NOVAE DETERMINATION OF PHYSICAL PARAMETERS ABUNDANCES IN NOVA EJECTA NOVA GRAIN PROPERTIES SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF CLASSICAL NOVAE OPTICAL AND ULTRAVIOLET EVOLUTION THE ULTRAVIOLET–OPTICAL CONNECTION AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM STAGES OF THE SPECTRAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE LIGHT CURVE STRUCTURE OF THE UNRESOLVED EJECTA MASS DETERMINATIONS FOR THE EJECTA THE X-RAY TURN-OFF SEEN FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET RECURRENT NOVAE AS SPECIAL CASES SUMMARY X-RAY EMISSION FROM CLASSICAL NOVAE IN OUTBURST SOURCES OF X-RAYS X-RAY LIGHT CURVES THE SOFT COMPONENT THE HARD COMPONENT RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCRETION EMISSION LINE SPECTRA SHORT-TERM VARIABILITY GAMMA-RAYS FROM CLASSICAL NOVAE ORIGIN OF GAMMA-RAYS FROM NOVAE GAMMA-RAY SPECTRA AND LIGHT CURVES OF INDIVIDUAL NOVAE CUMULATIVE GALACTIC GAMMA-RAY EMISSION OF NOVAE OBSERVATIONS OBSERVATIONS WITH INTEGRAL DISCUSSION RESOLVED NEBULAR REMNANTS OPTICAL AND NEAR-INFRARED IMAGERY THE COMBINATION OF OPTICAL IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY RADIO IMAGERY REMNANT SHAPING GK PERSEI DUST AND MOLECULES IN NOVA ENVIRONMENTS MOLECULES IN NOVA EJECTA OBSERVATION OF DUST IN NOVA EJECTA CHEMISTRY IN NOVA WINDS DUST FORMATION AND GROWTH THE ‘CHEMICAL DICHOTOMY’ IN NOVA DUST PROCESSING OF DUST NOVA REMNANTS ISOTOPIC RATIOS EXTRAGALACTIC NOVAE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS NOVA POPULATIONS EXTRAGALACTIC NOVA RATES NOVAE AS DISTANCE INDICATORS DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE STUDIES