AT2024epj - A mag 10 transient in/near the LMC

[Robin Leadbeater]

04:55:03.766 -65:55:57.18
https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024epj

Robin

[2SPOT]

Here's the spectrum taken last night from our 2SPOT eshel spectrograph from Chile.




Very noisy at magnitude around V=10 and too low for an echelle spectrograph and a RC 12'.



the two narrow emission line at 5577,35 Å and 6300 Å are [O I] atmospherics lines (not substract from the echelle spectrum)

And the full graph with a filter



It seems to us that this is a novae, with an expansion velocity of the ejecta on the hydrogen lines about 4000km/s.

[Tom Love]

And this is what I've managed with an Alpy. I suspect it's a little fainter than the 10th magnitude it has been estimated at. Similar result of about +/- 4200 km/s for the expanding shell.

[2SPOT]

Great Tom !!!

We will try next night with our Alpy 600....

[Robin Leadbeater]

And this is what I've managed with an Alpy. I suspect it's a little fainter than the 10th magnitude it has been estimated at. Similar result of about +/- 4200 km/s for the expanding shell.

Yes the latest report on TNS suggests it is fading rapidly

2024-03-18 18:34:24.000 11.56 (sloan g)

Robin

[Francois Teyssier]

Good result despite the low luminosity

Very fast nova.
Expansion velocity 4900-5100 km/s measured on H alpha and H beta.

Page opened: https://aras-database.github.io/database/at2024epj.html

[2SPOT]

ATEL :
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16545


and classification on TNS :
https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024epj

[Tom Love]

And an updated observation. This is a long (3 hour) exposure which shows a little more detail, though it's a bit noisy as we approach the near infrared. FITS files uploaded to the ARAS database as usual.

H Alpha in velocity:

at2024epj_ 20240321_838_Tom Love_HAlpha.png (21 KiB) Viewed 2442 times

[Olivier GARDE]

Nice result Tom !!!
And this is the confirmation of our previous spectrum.

We wil try again next night with our Alpy 600 at 2SPOT in Chile....

[Tom Love]

Thanks Olivier. My weather forecast is terrible for the next week, so I think it's over to you for now!