Talk:kilonova
Latest comment: 6 years ago by 75.71.17.28 in topic Add more info to the etymology
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Rfv-sense -- this doesn't make sense, novae have all sorts of luminosities, saying 1000x times the luminosity of a nova does not make sense. -- 70.51.200.20 11:54, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
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- This suggests that scientists might be willing to informally use both nova and kilonova as measures of the brightness of typical astronomical events of the type mentioned. That this use might be imprecise is not a problem to them and less so to us. DCDuring TALK 12:42, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
- Although that sounds reasonable, the only cites I can find refer to the event rather than the luminosity. Not being a physicist, I am not always sure, however. Here are the questionable cites I found:
- Kiwima (talk) 20:11, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
- I'm with you. We certainly don't have any unambiguous evidence that it is used that way. I saw some uses that referred to the radiation pattern rather than the hypothesized cause. I'll leave citations to the astrophysicists. DCDuring TALK 22:53, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Whether technically correct or not, there does seem to be some meaning there. bd2412 T 23:10, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 01:35, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Add more info to the etymology[edit]
English Wikipedia article on kilonova: "The term kilonova was introduced by Metzger et al. in 2010[2] to characterize the peak brightness, which they showed reaches 1000 times that of a classical nova." --75.71.17.28 03:14, 9 April 2018 (UTC)