novae as supersoft x-ray sources in andromeda - the joy of

Novae as SSS in M31 Martin Henze X-ray Universe, Dublin, 18/06/2014

Novae as supersoft X-ray sources in Andromeda

- The Joy of Painting -

Martin Henze

for the M31 nova monitoring collaboration

The X-ray Universe 2014 - Dublin, 18/06/2014


The real Joy of Painting


The real Joy of PaintingAlmost


Attention will be rewarded


Credits: Titian (~1550)

Artist'simpression

Introducing Andromeda


TLS TautenburgStiele+ 2011

Introducing Andromeda


X-ray monitoring of the M31 central region

5 arcmin


The Joy of Painting the big picture: Correlations(Henze et al. 2014, A&A, 563, A2)


Population studies

Disk vs Bulge

(Henze et al. 2014, A&A, 563, A2)


Population trends – the unusual suspects


Individual novae – the unusual suspects


(Henze et al. 2014, A&A, 563, L8; Darnley et al. 2014, A&A, 563, L9)

Extremely fast recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a

Optical light curve 2013

Optical spectrum 2012

Swift XRTSpectrum2013

Swift XRT light curve 2013

M31N 2007-12b


Question Time: The Joy of Chocolate

a) Young lady's name?

b) Why X-rays so important for nova science?

c) Which artist?

d) Why nova population studies so powerful and valuable?

e) My name?

Dr. ... who?

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