The Nova Phenomenon,an Occasional and Sometimes Repeated Intense Brightening of a Star

question 164

Multiple Choice

The nova phenomenon,an occasional and sometimes repeated intense brightening of a star by a factor of about 10⁶,is caused by:

• A) a beam of radiation from a nearby pulsar illuminating the surface of a red giant star and inducing rapid and intense heating.
• B) the capture and rapid compression of matter by a black hole.
• C) the explosion of a single massive star at the end of its thermonuclear fusion phases.
• D) explosive hydrogen fusion on the surface of a white dwarf star after mass transfer from a companion star in a binary system.

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