[vsnet-alert 10822] re possible new cataclysmic variable in Aqr

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Wed Dec 17 01:27:25 JST 2008


The admittedly sparse "epoch photometry" from the SDSS Stripe82 database hasn't managed to capture any previous outbursts from this object (y axis is r', x axis is MJD) :-

http://s4.tinypic.com/3347kw0.jpg

the roughly 0.3 to 0.4 mag quiescence scatter is about typical noise level for this magnitude in this data

cf. http://www.astronet.ru/db/varstars/msg/1232137


John Greaves


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