V1500 Cygni
File:NovaCygni1975Labelled.jpg Nova Cygni 1975 (center), photographed at 07:00 UT August 30, 1975. Also shown are 59 Cygni (magnitude 4.8), 60 Cygni (magnitude 5.4) and 63 Cygni (magnitude 4.5) | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Right ascension | Template:RA[1] |
| Declination | Template:DEC[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 1.69 to <21[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Variable type | Fast nova[2] + asynchronous polar[3] |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: Script error: No such module "val". mas/yr[1] Dec.: Script error: No such module "val". mas/yr[1] |
| Parallax (π) | 0.6427±0.1087 mas[1] |
| Distance | approx. Template:Rnd ly (approx. Template:Rnd pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | Script error: No such module "val". (maximum)[4] to +7.8 (minimum)[5] |
| Details | |
| WD | |
| Mass | 1.20[6] Template:Solar mass |
| Radius | 0.009[7] Template:Solar radius |
| Luminosity | 5[7] Template:Solar luminosity |
| Temperature | 54,000[5] K |
| donor | |
| Mass | ~0.22[8] Template:Solar mass |
| Radius | 0.42[5] Template:Solar radius |
| Temperature | 3,000 - 5,200[5] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | {{{metal_fe2}}} dex |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
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V1500 Cygni or Nova Cygni 1975 was a bright nova occurring in 1975 in the constellation Cygnus. It had the second highest intrinsic brightness of any nova of the 20th century, exceeded only by CP Puppis in 1942.[9] V1500 Cygni was firstly reported by Minoru Honda of Kurashiki, Japan at 13h40m, 29 August 1975 (UT), shining at an apparent brightness of magnitude 3.0.[10] But the first discoverer in time was Kentaro Osada (August 29, 11h30m UT).[11] It had brightened to magnitude 1.7 on the next day, and then rapidly faded. It remained visible to the naked eye for about a week, and 680 days after reaching maximum the star had dimmed by 12.5 magnitudes.
It is an AM Herculis type star, consisting of a red dwarf secondary depositing a stream of material onto a highly magnetized white dwarf primary. The distance of the V1500 Cygni was calculated in 1977 by the McDonald Observatory at 1.95 kiloparsecs (6,360 light years).[12] More recently the Gaia space observatory determined a distance of approximately 5,100 light years.[1] Additionally, V1500 Cyg was the first asynchronous polar to be discovered. This distinction refers to the fact that the white dwarf's spin period is slightly different from the binary orbital period. [13] However, by 2016, x-ray observations strongly suggested that the white dwarf rotation had returned to normal synchronization with the orbit.[4]
V1500 Cygni has a remnant typical of very fast novae, consisting of some clumps and some spherically symmetric diffuse material.[14]
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