Hello,
Below is an important note from Steve Shore encouraging you to continue to observe as much as possible; changes are rapid and need close spectroscopical monitoring. Keep up with your observations!
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This is VERY important, Olivier! The Fe II is now starting to show the
narrow features -- it's recombining (almost on schedule) and now please
let people know that every day counts.
There will be structure (multiple components in absorption) on all of
the newly appeared metallic ion lines (e.g. Fe II and also forbidden
lines). The current velocities are almost 1000 km/s but these will
change over time (there's a section of the BASI paper that describes
some of this but I should write more in the next day as notes for you
all).
We're getting scans of the Stratton and Manning atlas of the DQ Her
1934 event so I may be able to send some files for comparisons (at
least I hope after scanning the spectra can be extracted for line
profiles).
This is just wonderful!
steve
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Here is the current list of observers that have published their spectra on ARAS:
O. Garde : eShel (R=10000) echelle spectrograph, 35cm telescope, France
O. Thizy : Alpy 600 (R=600) spectrograph, 8.5cm telescope, France
T. de France : LISA (R=1000) spectrograph, 23cm telecope, France
D. Antao : Alpy 600 (R=600) spectrograph, 25cm telescope, France
J. Edlin : LISA (R=1000) spectrograph, 20cm telescope, USA
K. Graham : Alpy 600 (R=600) spectrograph, 25cm telescope, USA
J. Guarro : home made (R=6500) spectrograph, 40cm telescope, Spain
F. Teyssier : LISA (R=1000) spectrograph, 25cm telescope, France
P. Berardi : Lhires III/600 (R=2500) spectrograph, 23cm telescope, Italy
T. Bohlsen : LISA (R=1000) spectrograph, 28cm telescope, Australia
E. Pollmann : Lhires III/2400 (R=15000) spectrograph, 35cm telescope, Germany
T. Lemoult : eShel (R=1000) echelle spectrograph, 35cm telescope, France
A. Favaro : Lhires III/2400 (R=14000) spectrograph, 20cm telescope, France
J.-N. Terry : Alpy 600 (R=600) spectrograph, 25cm telescope, France
I'm glad that 14 different people have submitted their spectra to ARAS / François Teyssier. I know several of you are working on their processing to be included in the database, so the list of names will increase. Of course, do not hesitate to ask if you need any help. It would be very nice to get more people from US & Australia time zone for better time coverage...
The nova brightness is doing an halt after maximum which is very rare... so this seems to be a unique object which is worth observing on a continuous basis at the moment and for at least one week...
Cordialement,
Olivier Thizy
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