(cba:news) [Fwd: ATel 1867]

[Joe Patterson]

Dear CBAers,

Given the amplitude of this dwarf nova, it may very well be one of our 
favorites - in the WZ Sge class.  Andromeda is not very well positioned 
now... and the background galaxy might be pretty annoying... but see if 
you can get a time series on it, while it's still bright (if it is).
We can still solve for a unique period, if we get a USA-Europe baseline.
Here's the 2000 position:
00 42 26.50  +42 15 36.7
Sorry if it's a bad field.  Here in New York, I dunno!

joe

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Subject: ATel  1867
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2008 01:41:50 -0500 (EST)
From: atel at astronomerstelegram.org
To: jop at astro.columbia.edu

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ATEL #1867							     ATEL #1867

Title:		M31N2008-11b is a Galactic Dwarf Nova
Author:	M. M. Kasliwal, R. Quimby, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)
Queries:	mansi at astro.caltech.edu
Posted:	8 Dec 2008;  4:28  UT
Subjects:	Cataclysmic Variables, Novae, Transients, Variables

We observed M31N2008-11b <a 
href='http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/CBAT_M31.html#2008-11b'>(K.
Itagaki, CBET#1588)</a> with the Double Beam Spectrograph on the Palomar
Hale 5-m telescope on UT Dec 4.221. This spectrum has a steep blue 
continuum,
very narrow emission in H-alpha and broad absorption in H-beta through
at least H-eta. Further, there is a faint blue counterpart in SDSS DR 
Supplement
g-band imaging (g=22.8, r > 23.3). Given the reported peak magnitude of
14.5 (CBET#1588), this outburst had an amplitude of >8 mag. We suggest
that this optical transient is an SU-UMa-like superoutburst in our own
galaxy similar to HS2219+1824 (Rodriguez-Gil et al 2005).

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