[vsnet-alert 14697] New bright CV in Vulpecula by MASTER

Denis Denisenko d.v.denisenko at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 18:50:20 JST 2012


We have discovered a new bright CV in Vulpecula on the survey images
from MASTER-Kislovodsk robotic telescope taken last night (about 13
hours ago). Astronomer's Telegram will be published soon at
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/ (should be ATel 4207). Meanwhile I
am reporting the coordinates and finder charts so that people can
start observing right now. Outburst amplitude is about 7m, so this one
might be a new UGWZ variable.

MASTER OT J211258.65+242145.4 = USNO-B1.0 1143-0518038 = GALEX J211258.7+242145

Unfiltered magnitudes from the discovery images:

2012-06-24 20:03:36 UT 12.85
2012-06-24 20:37:29 UT 12.94
2012-06-24 21:12:04 UT 12.90

Discovery and reference images:
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/MASTER211258.65+242145.4.jpg

There is a faint blue star on Palomar plates and in USNO-B1 catalog
(B1=19.73, R1=20.03, B2=20.78, R2=20.39) with the proper motion (12,
-4) mas/year. GALEX UV magnitudes are FUV=19.91, NUV=20.06. No
prevoius outbursts were found on DSS plates and NEAT images. This area
is not covered by SDSS and CRTS.

10'x10' color-combined (BRIR) DSS finder chart is uploaded to
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/J211258.65+242145.4-BRIR10x10.jpg

Denis Denisenko

P.S. This is the first optical transient discovered by myself from the
MASTER images after cheking several hundred candidates in 2.5 months,
and such a bright one!


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