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Nova Eruptions with Infrared Interferometric Observations
Infrared interferometric observations have a great deal of potential to
unravel the nature of the nova eruptions. We suggest that techniques, already
in place, to derive the ejection details at optical wavelengths be used with
infrared interferometric observations to derive parameters such as the ejected
mass in a nova eruption. This is achievable based on modelling the initial
phase of the eruption when the infrared light is dominated by the free-free
thermal process.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of "Physics of Evolved Stars 2015 - A
conference dedicated to the memory of Olivier Chesneau
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