Questions tagged [time-domain-astronomy]
For questions relating to the study of how and why objects in the cosmos change on timescales from seconds to decades, both in photometric and spectroscopic datasets. Not for questions about the nature of time. There may be a more specific tag, such as variable stars or supernovae
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Can a Nova occur outside of a binary star system?
With the T Coronae Borealis nova likely to erupt soon, it got me thinking if novas could occur outside of a binary star system.
On the wiki page titled Nova:
All observed novae involve white dwarfs ...
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Automated (and hopefully free) systems I can subscribe to sending email or SMS text message when the T Coronae Borealis Nova becomes visible?
My earlier question about predicted potentially observable events Has a gravitational microlensing event ever been predicted? If so, has it been observed? is limited to microlensing.
Now I have just ...
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Is there such a thing as a map that shows the current (not observed) positions of celestial objects?
As I understand it, maps of the sky and three-dimensional maps of the universe all show the observed positions of celestial objects.
Are there any maps that show our best guess at their current ...
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If a Milky Way supernova were to happen, how long would it take for astronomers to be notified?
If a Supernova were to happen in the Milky Way, how long would it take for astronomers to be notified?
How long would it take for the people running the gravitational wave and neutrino detectors to ...
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Intuitive connection between the periods of oscillation of Betelgeuse and the elemental concentrations at its core? (Betelgeuse; Saio et al. (2023))
Preamble (yes it's long, but it's part of this question's premise, so need to spell it out)
Dr. Becky's recent video New study claims Betelgeuse supernova IMMINENT (decades not centuries!) | Night Sky ...
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Has the new type II supernova SN 2023ixf's subtype been determined yet, and is a tentative light curve possible? Is it still getting brighter?
Wikipedia's article on SN 2023ixf begins:
SN 2023ixf is a type II (core collapse) supernova located in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101). It was first observed on May 19, 2023 by Koichi Itagaki and ...
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History, significance and "drama" (if any) of T-Tauri stars, especially the early bits?
In this answer to Can I write a systematic review as an undergraduate and get it published in a journal? in Academia SE I recounted my memory of an experience from circa 1980:
I had an initially ...
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Are chirped gravitational wave events generally first identified by searching through libraries of chirps?
Comments below What does "GPU-accelerated butterfly matched filtering over dense bank of time-symmetric chirp-like templates" mean? (GW170817) suggest that for this technique a library of ...
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How close are we to observing all of the sky all of the time?
I was musing on how amateur astronomy is still a heavy contributor to the overall field, and how on any given night there will be plenty of small telescopes pointing into the void and capturing the ...
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How to derive gravitational-wave frequency vs time from strain vs time
Suppose I have a time-series of the gravitational-wave strain amplitude as a (discrete, i.e., an array of numbers) function of time. The figure below is just illustrative. I am not using measured LIGO/...
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What is the fraction of the time that the JWST could view a short transient event on-demand as a function of position on the celestial sphere?
In this answer to Why does JWST have such a big Blind Spot? I argue that this space telescope primary relationship with time is that it strives to look way back in it and so as long as a given ...
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Why is the L3 Lagrangian point not perfectly stable? And why is the Earth-Sun L3 point a bit less than one A.U.?
I suppose the answer might involve general relativity, but still....
The L4 and L5 points are considered, theoretically, long-term stable, but not L3, on the exact opposite side of the Sun... And it ...
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How much time do I have left to easily spot the recently brightened Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi with binoculars and mild light pollution?
Excellent answers to Binocular-friendly star map to find the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi? provide some helpful maps for circa 8° FOV binoculars, but due to spatial and potential meteorological ...
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What is a typical "pulse rate" for a black hole "heartbeat"? Is the process better understood than it was in 2011?
The 2011 NASA Goddard video NASA | RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate mentions a heartbeat and includes a graphic of pulses from GRS 1915+105. A screenshot is shown below. No ...
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Is "magnetars don't last long — just a year to a few years" really true? Is it a misquote or perhaps taken out of context?
NASA's Two Sides of the Same Star discusses the relationship between pulsars and magnetars and contains a video also linked below.
At 02:13 it quotes "Tom ...
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