When will T Coronae Borealis next erupt as a nova? Constraints from recurrence, orbital phase, and accretion-state evolution

arXiv:2607.15245 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

Songpeng Pei, Xiaowan Zhang, Renzhi Su, Ziwei Ou, Yongzhi Cai, Qiang Li, Yu Liu, Xiaoqin Ren, Taozhi Yang

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letter (MNRAS Letter)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• American Association of Variable Star Observers — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Lack of Significant Orbital-Phase Locking in the Active Phases of the Recurrent Nova T CrB

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