[vsnet-alert 13093] Re: DR UMa outburst!

[Brian Skiff]

     OK, I'll retract the "obviously wrong" part of the comment.
So could Romano (discoverer of DR UMa) have seen something this
faint, or was there perhaps some other event in the near field
that he reported?  A solution to classifying the present event,
of course, is a spectrum, which should "tell all"!

\Brian



On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 15:51 +0900, Taichi Kato wrote:
> Re: DR UMa outburst!
> 
> >       Although the object is listed as a candidate quasar in various
> > papers, I see no redshift determination from a _spectrum_ in the
> > VizieR listing, only inference from colors and photometric redshift,
> > which is obviously wrong.
> 
>    This object (not at nominal catalog position of DR UMa) has been
> detected in radio (GB6 J1359+5544, FIRST) which might prefer an AGN-related
> origin.