Classical novae vs cataclysmic variables

Abstract: We present a preliminary comparison of the post-nova population with that of general cataclysmic variables (CVs). We particularly focus on the mass-transfer rate and its potential relation to the nova eruption. We find that the known post-nova sample exclusively consists of high mass-transfer CVs, but that this is more likely to be due to the shorter recurrent time for those systems, rather than the mass-transfer rate being affected by the eruption. Nevertheless, we find evidence for such an effect for specific post-novae, and that it is potentially related to the binary separation and to presence or absence of an accretion disc.