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The recently estabilished values of M31 and M33 nova rate, r M31 = 29 ± 4 novae yr−1 (Capaccioli et a1.,1989), r M33 = 4 ± 2 novae yr−1 (Della Valle, 1988), seems to be at variance with the present estimates for the galactic nova rate, r = 260 novae yr−1 (Sharov,1972) and r = 73 ± 24 novae yr−1 (Liller and Meyer,1987), if we take into account the luminosity class and the Hubble type of the Galaxy. Assuming the nova production per unit of B-luminosity about constant for spiral galaxies and adopting the derived values of the nova rate of M31, M33 and LMC as calibrators, we estimate a galactic nova rate of r Gal = 15 ± 5 novae yr−1.
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Della Valle, M., Claudi, R. (1990). The galactic nova rate. In: Cassatella, A., Viotti, R. (eds) Physics of Classical Novae. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53500-4_95
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