[vsnet-alert 10089] Re: RS Oph fading

[Hiroyuki Maehara]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:36:05AM +0900, Taichi Kato wrote:
>    RS Oph is fading.  The present faintness is comparable to the
> post-outburst transient fading (around 2006 July).
> The latter has been interpreted as a result of temporary
> disappearance of the accretion disk.  The same interpretation
> appears difficult at this epoch.  Time-resolved photometry is
> encouraged to see if flickering is still present.

I performed V-filtered time-resolved photometry last night.
The data show QPO-like modulations with an amplitude of up to 0.3 mag.

Regards,
Hiroyuki Maehara