(cba:news) [Fwd: CBET 2275: 20100508 : CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE IN PEGASUS]

[Joe Patterson]

Here's a lot more info on this fascinating star.  So far, the 
magnitudes, spectrum, and proper motion are all highly consistent with 
the WZ Sge class - indeed, a quite good match (so far) with the great WZ 
  itself.  Drag the telescope into that morning chill, and watch those 
beautiful light curves come rolling out of your cameras!

And let us know what you find!  This message contains, among other 
goodies, the exact positional information.

If you have a V filter, that would be a good choice.  R is good, too.
The star is bright enough (and probably will remain so) to survive 
filtering, plus the obvious advantages: standardization, better control 
of extinction, etc.  However, eventually we're going to have to all 
convert to unfiltered (to get good signal-to-noise late in the 
outburst)... and *some* unfiltered observation now will help make this 
transition more tractable.

joe




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Subject: CBET 2275: 20100508 : CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE IN PEGASUS
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: quai at cfa.harvard.edu
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                                                   Electronic Telegram 
No. 2275
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE IN PEGASUS
      [Editor's note:  the following text replaces that on CBET 2274]
      S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports the independent discovery of the
outburst of this variable (cf. CBET 2273) by Shizuo Kaneko (Kami-Yashiki,
Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken) at mag 9.0 on two 20-s exposures (limiting mag 12.4)
taken on May 7.787 UT with a Contax 80-mm f/2.0 camera lens (+ Canon Kiss
Digital X camera); nothing was visible at this position on a frame taken
by Kaneko on May 1.742 with the same instrumentation.  From Kaneko's
discovery frame, Nakano measures mag 9.1 (limiting mag 13.2) and the
following position for the variable:  R.A. = 21h38m07s.03, Decl. =
+26d20'03".0 (equinox 2000.0; probable error +/- 4"), adding that a faint
star of mag around 14 is visible at position end figures 11s.5, 01".
      H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, reports that the variable appears at
mag about 15 (near the limiting magnitude) on a CCD survey image taken
by K. Itagaki (Yamagata, Japan) on May 1.71 UT with a 0.21-m telescope,
which suggests that the star was then at a quiesient phase; Itagaki
provides position end figures 06s.66, 19'57".1 and mag about 8.8 from an
image taken on May 8.657 UT with his 0.60-m telescope, indicating that
the outbursting object is a southern component of a double star GSC
2197:866 (cf. CBET 2273).
      A. Henden, AAVSO, notes that Palomar Sky Survey (POSS) plates show a
close pair of objects at the location of the outbursting variable:  one is
essentially stationary, while the other has a relatively high proper motion.
On the POSS-I plates, the southwest component of the 3"-separated double is
obviously blue, while on the POSS-II plates, it has moved east-northeast by
about 3" and is now about 1" southeast of the stationary northeast 
component.
At this motion rate, it would be expected to lie an arcsec or two east 
of the
stationary component at this epoch.  This rate of motion would imply
something intrinsically faint but relatively close; adding in the color
would imply a white dwarf -- suggesting that the moving object is the
outbursting object and that it is a cataclysmic variable with an amplitude
of about 6 magnitudes.
      P. Camilleri, Sydney, Australia, obtained two unfiltered CCD images of
the variable remotely at the Tzec Maun Observatory in New Mexico using a
Takahashi Epsilon 0.18-m f/2.8 corrected Newtonian reflector (May 8.371 UT,
mag 9.3) and a 0.35-m Maksutov-Newtonian f/3.8 reflector (May 8.388, mag 
8.9),
yielding position end figures 06s.64 +/- 0s.02, 19'56".8 +/- 0".1.
      Tabulated summary of the available data from CBET 2273 and above:

    2010 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.        Observer
    May  1.71                               15  :       Itagaki
         1.742                             [13  :       Kaneko (Nakano)
         6.77   (21 38 06.6   +26 19 57)    10.8        Yi
         7.76                                8.4        Yi
         7.787   21 38 07.03  +26 20 03.0    9.1        Kaneko (Nakano)
         8.371   21 38 06.63  +26 19 56.7    9.3        Camilleri
         8.388   21 38 06.66  +26 19 56.8    8.9        Camilleri
         8.657   21 38 06.66  +26 19 57.1    8.8        Itagaki

      M. L. Graham, H. Broekhoven-Fiene, A. H. Parker, S. Sadavoy, and A. J.
Maxwell, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria; E. Y.
Hsiao, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; and D. D. Balam, Dominion Astrophysical
Observatory, National Research Council of Canada, report that a spectrum
(range 390-703 nm, resolution 0.3 nm) of this variable (cf. CBET 2273),
obtained on May 8.47 UT with the 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope of the National
Research Council of Canada, shows strong H-alpha and H-beta in emission
(HWFM 800 km/s), as well as He II (468.6 nm) and a broad emission feature
centered at 465 nm that is interpreted as the Bowen complex of N III, C III,
and C IV.  All members of the Balmer series show shell-like profiles with
both red and blue absorption components.
      A. Arai, Kyoto Sangyo University, reports that an optical spectrogram
(resolution 500) of the variable was obtained using the 1.3-m ARAKI 
telescope
on May 8.66 UT under poor sky conditions.  The spectrum shows a blue
continuum and a weak H-alpha emission line (EW about 0.4 nm), suggesting
that the object would be classified as a dwarf nova.  No other significant
emission or absorption lines were seen in the low-S/N data.


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