Volume 304, Numbers 1-4, 401-403, DOI: 10.1007/s10509-006-9240-7

Getting SMARTS on Novae: Highlights of the Early Evolution of Nova V475 Sct

Guy S. Stringfellow and Frederich M. Walter

From the issue entitled "Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Challenges"

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Abstract

There is a disconcerting global trend of retiring telescopes of modest aperture, supplanting them instead with fewer expensive telescopes of quite large aperture. As a consequence, the available time and feasibility of following transient objects in astrophysics is diminishing. We show the utility of having a suite of small to moderate aperture telescopes capable of conducting imaging and spectroscopic observations in a service queue mode. The example we provide is the high-cadence early observations of the classical nova V475 Scuti (2003) carried out with the SMARTS suite of telescopes located at CTIO.

Keywords  Novae - Photometry - Spectroscopy - Light curves - Line profiles

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