Hi All
An interesting paper on this nova has just been published on Arxiv - [2511.16594] FQ Circini: An Ordinary Nova with a High-mass B1 V(n)(e) Companion Whose Decretion Disk Transfers Mass to the White Dwarf via Roche-Lobe Overflow
It’s a great example of amateur and professional collaboration as well as confirming the existence of a new class of CV.
I hope you enjoy the read!
Regards
Andrew
Andrew,
Nice job and interesting paper!
This topic drew me further in and further down the knowledge path tho… “Bayesian parallax calculation”!
Jim (DEY)
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That type of lack of attribution has been around for a long, long time… Individual efforts often only get credit with the phrase “AAVSO Observers” or “AAVSO Light Curve” or similar.
Sometimes you get an offer to be an author, sometimes you may get mentioned in a paper, or in the credits section, if a specific critical observation was made by you that was significant.
That is the type of work we do… the long-time monitoring of variable stars that often gets no credit but does increase the general knowledge of the variable stars.
Jim (DEY)
Rather than simply submitting data to the AID, where it might well languish or be uncredited, I would certainly encourage folks who have some significant run of data on variables to publish a short report about them. In addition to the JAAVSO, one might consider the BAA variable-star section circulars:
…or the similar BAV ‘rundbrief’:
…or the Variable Stars South newsletter:
Notice lots of familiar names here, and also how nicely put-together these publications are.
\Brian
…However, AAVSO results on Z UMi deep fade have not been noted in the BAA VSS circular, just British points were presented 
It is not so important, but LC may be more dense.