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Hertzog’s Nova

guest star

position:

in the space of the fourth star of Xuanyuan

101

old spelling:

Hsien-Yuan, at the fourth star of Hsien-Yuan

duration:
-
-
colour etc.:
bluish-yellow

supernova?

-

nova

likely

supernova candidates

nova candidates

no SNR/ PSR candidate

BK Lyn, YZ LMi, SDSS J100658.40 + 233724.4

alternatives:
         comet, microlensing or

...

most likely:

BK Lyn

Reference (see publications)

Paper 0: Protte and Hoffmann, AN, 2020 

Paper 1: Vogt, Hoffmann, Tappert, AN, 2019 

Paper 2: Hoffmann, MNRAS 2019 

Paper 3: Hoffmann, Vogt, Protte, AN, 2020 

Paper 4: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Paper 5: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Paper 6: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Book: Wolfschmidt and Hoffmann (eds.) 2021

Paper 7: Hoffmann, Vogt, New Astronomy, 2022

Reference

Paper 5

Reference

Hertzog (1986)

Map of the search field

no SNR/ PSR candidate

red ovals: all SNRs in field, 
blue asterixes: pulsars in the field

BK Lyn
BK Lyn

diamonds: all CVs in field, 
filled diamonds: bright enough

cyan ovals: all PNe in field, 
diamonds: symbiotic & CVs

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