Initiation of Radio/Millimeter Monitoring of Nova Del 2013

ATel #5298; L. Chomiuk (MSU), B. A. Zauderer (CfA), J. Sokoloski, J. Weston, Y. Zheng (Columbia), T. Nelson (Minnesota), K. Mukai (UMBC/GSFC), M. Rupen, A. Mioduszewski (NRAO), J. Linford, & T. Finzell (MSU)
on 17 Aug 2013; 16:41 UT
Credential Certification: Laura Chomiuk (chomiuk@pa.msu.edu)

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We report VLA and CARMA observations of Nova Del 2013 (CBET #3628) from 2013 August 16. These observations span 4.6--96 GHz and yield non-detections:

UT Time	Freq	Flux Density
	(GHz)	(mJy)
Aug 16.15	4.6	-0.001 +/- 0.010
Aug 16.15	7.4	-0.004 +/- 0.007
Aug 16.19	28.2	0.016 +/- 0.028
Aug 16.19	36.5	0.030 +/- 0.028
Aug 16.34	95.7	0.53 +/- 0.22

Assuming that the nova ejection took place on 2013 Aug 14.0 at 2300 km/s (ATel #5282), and the ejecta have a temperature of 10^4 K, the 3 sigma upper limit at 95.7 GHz yields a lower limit on the distance, > 2 kpc (consistent with optical distance estimates; ATel #5297).

We plan to follow the radio/millimeter evolution of this nova with additional multi-frequency observations.

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