GAMMA-RAY NOVAE

Symbiotic novae and classical novae have been, recently, classified as a new type of gamma-ray source. Since the gamma-ray emissions are highly associated with the high-energy particle accretion inside nova blast waves, we investigate the shock interaction and evolution of nova ejecta in binary systems via three-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations.

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Publications:

  1. Kuo-Chuan Pan, P. M. Ricker, and R. E. Taam, “Simulations of the symbiotic recurrent nova V407-Cyg. I. Accretion and shock evolutions”, 2015, ApJ, 806, 27 [Link]
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