[vsnet-alert 18062] V838 Mon: bluing and spectral evolution

Taichi Kato tkato at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Mon Dec 15 11:03:33 JST 2014


V838 Mon: bluing and spectral evolution

   Kiyota-san has noticed that V838 Mon has been
brightening in R (particularly since 2013).
Fujii-san obtained the following spectrum
resembling an early K-type (in stead of
an expected M-type spectrum)

http://otobs.org/FBO/etc/v838_mon_20141213.png

   The result is not on a simple extrapolation
of the recent observations reported in the following
paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2513


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