TESS detection of periodic brightness variations during the rise of classical nova PGIR22akgylf

arXiv:2606.12532 · astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-10 · Read on arXiv

Kirill V. Sokolovsky, Elias Aydi, Konstantin Malanchev, Koji Mukai, Jennifer L. Sokoloski, Laura Chomiuk, Peter Allen Craig, Rebekah A. Hounsell, Justin D. Linford, Isabella Molina, Montana N. Williams, Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas Earley, David J. Lane, Filipp D. Romanov, Richard Schmidt

astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-10

Comments: 21 page, 11 figures, 3 tables; submitted to PASP; comments welcome

Code: https://github.com/kirxkirx/PGIR22akgylf_lightkurve

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — 2× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• American Association of Variable Star Observers — 1× in this paper
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• The orbital period of the nova V1674 Her as observed with TESS
• A very rapidly rotating white dwarf in nova YZ Reticuli
• The Place of Recurrent Novae among the Symbiotic Stars
• TESS Input Catalog versions 8.1 and 8.2: Phantoms in the 8.0 Catalog and How to Handle Them
• Pre-maximum and maximum of Novae: The spectroscopic observations of Nova ASASSN-17hx
• Insights from Pulsating Nova Envelopes
• TESS photometry of the nova eruption in V606 Vul: asymmetric photosphere and multiple ejections?
• Atlas of photometric and spectroscopic daily monitoring of the very slow Nova Cas 2021 (=V1405 Cas) during the first 660 days of its outburst

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