PREDNASAJUCI / LECTURER :
Vitaly Goranskij, SAI Moscow University
Co-authors: Natalia Metlova (SAI, Crimean Station, UA), Sergei Shugarov
(SAI Moscow Univ.& Astronomical In-t of Slovak Academy of Sciences),
Elena Barsukova and Azamat Valeev (SAO, Russian Academy of Sciences)

NAZOV / TITLE :
The nature of peculiar red novae

ABSTRAKT / ABSTRACT :
Peculiar red novae is a new type of eruptive variable stars.
It includes at least 4 objects having similar property: cool K-M
type spectra in outbursts. It is established that at least two of
them, V838 Mon and V4332 Sgr were binary systems with a blue
component, which exploded. A big amount of mass of several solar
masses is usually thrown out in the space in such explosions. We have
studied the progenitors of the last two novae using plate archives
and digitized surveys, and the evolution of remnants using
spectroscopic and photometric methods. We studied also stellar
and gaseous surroundings of V838 Mon, which may be a young
stellar system.