Whoa!  This is great news.  Let me refresh everyone on FS Aur, the star that
has *completely* defied efforts to understand.  The radial-velocity period
is 0.059 days, and we generally assume P(vrad) = Porb.  CVs of that Porb are
decently understood - nearly all are SU UMa stars, with superoutbursts,
superhumps, etc... we all know the drill.  But FS Aur certainly has no
superoutbursts or superhumps - just these rare and brief outbursts which
don't fit into any known scheme for understanding eruptions.  None have ever
been followed well with time-series photometry (though I think Tom Krajci
covered one decently from one longitude).  The other mystery - the biggest
one I guess - is that there's a large-amplitude signal at 0.142 d in the
light curve... unrelated to everything else about the star, but obviously of
deep significance (because the amplitude is very large).

So let's follow it into its latest adventure.  BTW I have a draft of a paper
on FS Aur - collaboration with the AAVSO - which is almost done and just
waiting for the sky to settle down a bit!

joe

Jeannie Monteith wrote:

> Yes, I am about to start it now.  TUT & Jeannie Campbell
> Whispering Pine Observatories
> HArrison ARK, USA
> 
> --- bart staels  wrote:
> 
> > I just ended a 7-hour run on FS Aur ; is definitely in outburst
> > (14.891 in the beginning of the run and 14.187 near the end); anyone
> > able to take over in the States?
> > 
> > stargreetings
> > 
> > Bart Staels
> > CBA Flanders