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B.F. Lane (MIT), A. Retter (Penn State), J.A. Eisner (UC Berkeley), R.R. Thompson (IPAC/Caltech), M.W. Muterspaugh (MIT)
We report on observations of Nova Aql 2005 (V1663 Aql) using the Palomar Testbed Interferometer. Near-infrared observations of the nova were initiated approximately 9 days after peak luminosity and continued for 10 days. Using the three available baselines we resolved the milliarcsecond-scale emission and measured the shape and angular size of the nova photosphere as a function of time. These observations can be combined with radial-velocity information to produce a geometric distance (and hence luminosity) estimate.
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37 #4
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