(cba:news) BW SCL bright outburst (v=9.6)!

[Joe Patterson]

Holy mackerel!  Is this true?  Linnolt's record is pretty good. Can 
someone confirm?  And can everyone skip work, and work on this star 
tree-to-tree?

Waiting for BW Scl to erupt - it's been a long vigil.  If true, it's 
certainly the most important dwarf-nova eruption since WZ Sge in 1978. 
Despite the brevity of this message, it took me a long time to write it. 
  I made about 50 errors - from trembling fingers!

Just yesterday, our paper (Helena Uthas et al., MNRAS) on BW Scl at 
quiescence was finally accepted.  She'll forward it in a few days.  I 
don't remember including any "keep up a close watch" exhortation - but 
as many of you know, it's been on the prime WZ Sge watch-list for a long 
time... tied for #1 with GD 552 and MT Com.

joe




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [vsnet-outburst 13345] Fwd: [AAVSO-DIS] BW SCL bright outburst 
  (v=9.6)!
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:34:00 +0900
From: Hiroyuki Maehara <mira at cetus-net.org>
To: vsnet-alert at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
CC: vsnet-campaign-dn at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp, 
vsnet-outburst at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  According to M. Linnolt (via Aavso-discussion list), BW Scl is undergoing
a bright outburst. The orbital period of this object is 78.2 min 
(Augusteijn,
T. & Wisotzki, L. A&A 324, 57-60, 1997). The object is likely a WZ Sge-type
dwarf nova. Time-resolved observations are encouraged.

----- Forwarded message from Michael Linnolt <linnolt at hawaii.edu> -----
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:54:26 -1000
From: Michael Linnolt <linnolt at hawaii.edu>
To: aavso-discussion at aavso.org
Subject: [AAVSO-DIS] BW SCL bright outburst (v=9.6)!
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2010;
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Just observed this star at historical(?) brightness. V=9.6 !
Mike LMK


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