{"paper":{"title":"A Search For Pulsations in the Optical Light Curve of the Nova ASASSN-17hx","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Brian D. Metzger, Gregg Hallinan, Ken J. Shen, Laura Chomiuk, Lee J. Rosenthal, Navtej Singh, Raffaella Margutti","submitted_at":"2018-10-16T22:34:27Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present high-speed optical observations of the nova ASASSN-17hx, taken both immediately after its discovery and close to its first peak in brightness, to search for seconds -- minutes pulsations associated with the convective eddy turnover timescale within the nova envelope. We do not detect any periodic signal with greater than $3\\sigma$ significance. Through injection and recovery, we rule out periodic signals of fractional amplitude $>7.08\\times10^{-4}$ on timescales of 2 seconds and fractional amplitude $>1.06\\times10^{-3}$ on timescales of 10 minutes. Additional observations of novae a"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1810.07298","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}