Outburst of a supposed cataclysmic variable

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Outburst of a supposed cataclysmic variable

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A new star has been detected, probably a CV.
There's no confirmation spectrum of this star up to now.
It's magnitude is almost easy for a LISA

Typical spectra of "new stars" :

http://www.astronomie-amateur.fr/feuill ... Stars.html

François Teyssier

Here's the vsnet message :

A bright (unfiltered magnitude 12.65) optical transient source was detected on 2012 January 27 at position 06:32:13.06 +25:36:22.5 (+/-0.3", J2000). Inspection of previous images of this field revealed that the object is also present on images from January 24, 25, and 26 but is below the detection limit (typically around 13.5m) on January 20 and 21.


Date JD mag.
2012-01-20.740 2455947.240 >13.5
2012-01-21.701 2455948.207 >13.5
2012-01-24.759 2455951.259 13.10 ±0.05
2012-01-25.845 2455952.346 12.81 ±0.03
2012-01-26.833 2455953.333 12.66 ±0.03
2012-01-27.897 2455954.397 12.61 ±0.03
The observations were obtained with a wide-field survey camera (F=135mm f/2.0 telephoto lens equipped with ST8300M CCD) operated by Ka-Dar Observatory at the Mountain station of Kazan State University (Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia). The instrumental magnitude scale is calibrated using V magnitudes of Tycho-2 (Hog et al., 2000, A&A, 355L, 27) stars in the field of view.

The optical transient is associated with an ultraviolet object GALEX J063213.0+253623 (FUV=18.42 ±0.05, NUV=17.90 ±0.03) located 0.7" from the measured optical position (see http://galex.stsci.edu/GR6/ ). The transient is 24" away from an unidentified X-ray source 1RXS J063214.8+253620 listed in the ROSAT All Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog (Voges et al., 2000, IAUC, 7432) and is likely associated with it. The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3, Pojmanski 2001, ASPC, 246, 53; http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/ ) database lists two detections of a source at the above position:


Date HJD V
2009-03-17 2454907.54944 12.82 ±0.06
2009-03-21 2454911.53385 12.95 ±0.06
which may be the previous outburst of this object. We conclude that the observed optical transient source is likely a previously unknown cataclysmic variable in outburst.

Follow-up photometric and astrometric observations are requested.

The discovery images may be found here:
http://scan.sai.msu.ru/~kirx/ATel/1RXSJ063214/

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=3893
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