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Transient in vulpecula

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:37 am
by Francisco Campos
Hello,

there is a new alert in the AAVSO page about a new transient in vulpecula: PNV J20422233+2712111

The new object brights of mag. 11 and has been discovered by two independent Japanese observers. I have tried to observe this new object in the morning (sorry, i noticed this one exactly past night, when I was closing the observatory and going to sleep) and, effectively, the new object is present.

I took a low resolution spectrum but morning surprised me, so the spectrum (2x600s) is very noisy and with few features. A gaussian filter shows only weak Balmer absortion (H-gamma and delta) and a maximun intensiti near 4000 A.

It remembers me a dwarf nova near the maximun...

Sent this spectrum to the AAVSO forum, I'm going to sleep a bit...

Greetings
Fran

Re: Transient in vulpecula

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 6:51 am
by Francois Teyssier
Excellent reactivity!

Yes, it looks like a cataclysmicin outburst

Congratulations,

François