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Stephenson's Nova

guest star

position:

Emerged in the lunar mansion Kui and trespassed against the stars of Chuanshe

1181

old spelling:

Khui

duration:
185
d
colour etc.:
Bluish-red, like Saturn

supernova?

probable/ unlikely

nova

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supernova candidates

nova candidates

suggested PWN outside the search field

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alternatives:
         comet, microlensing or

WR star

most likely:

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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 3

Reference

Ritter et a. (2021)

Map of the search field

suggested PWN outside the search field

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

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

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

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