[vsnet-alert 11264] 2QZ J142438.9-022739 in outburst

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No idea how bright this one will be optically, probably similar in magnitude to the FUV and NUV magnitudes, the thing has similar UV and optical blue mags at quiescence and there's no real need for the outburst to show any particular colour either, so why not.

D&S and Ritter have it logged as an AM Her star, a Polar.  Here's the 2QZ spectrum

http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/vizExec/.get_sp?VII/241&J142438.9-022739&1

GALEX Alert show an outburst commenced two days ago, the current third row down object here

http://www.galex.caltech.edu/researcher/tdsalerts.html

with no updates since that time, so could be brighter still by now if caught on the rise, could be done with.  I'm not too familiar with the morphology of Polar outburst lightcurves (if it is a certain Polar).

Here's the graph

http://www.galex.caltech.edu/researcher/files/alert646lc.png

There's a required acknowledgement statement needed for using GALEX stuff formally.

Here's the page from the type classification paper of Marsh et al 2002

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/gif/2002ASPC..261..200M/0000204.000.html

Cheers

John

Based on archival data from the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) which is operated for NASA by the California Institute of Technology under NASA contract NAS5-98034