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(cba:news) and yet another... (Joe Patterson) [2010-04-09T12:42:36Z]


Patrick Woudt writes about another, a new Catalina Sky Survey transient in which he found fresh superhumps last night. The object is
CSS100408:105215-064326.

The code here is year-month-date:RA+dec. So in more common shorthand, it might be called CSS 1052-06 or OT 1052-06. (The nomenclature for these things is kinda fuzzy until the all-wise but famously glacial GCVS people get around to assigning an official name.)

The CSS website for transients is a real gold mine. (Finding charts, too.) If you don't already know it, you're in for a treat.

This is a good one too - Patrick threatens to study it in quiescence too, which always increases the scientific clout of these supermax light curves.

joe