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    Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

    In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days1. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism from the most common luminous e...

    Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, ** Chen, Steve Schulze, Vik Dhillon in Nature (2023)

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    The Nova-Like Variables

    We review optical observations and theoretical models of the non-magnetic nova-like variables (UX UMa, VY Scl and SW Sex stars). A brief discussion of the classification scheme is followed by a statistical ove...

    Vik Dhillon in Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects (1996)