[vsnet-alert 20282] ASASSN-16mg: a candidate AM CVn system (ATEL)

[Taichi Kato]

   Object name has been corrected (ATEL #9693)

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ATEL #9692                                                           ATEL #9692

Title:  ASASSN-16mg: a candidate AM CVn system
Author: M. Phillips (LCO), J. L. Prieto (UDP/MAS), B. J. Shappee (Carnegie
                Obs.), S. Dong (KIAA-PKU), K. Stanek (OSU)
Queries:        jose.prietok at mail.udp.cl
Posted: 31 Oct 2016; 19:16 UT
Subjects:Optical, Cataclysmic Variable, Transient

We obtained an optical spectrum of the CV candidate ASASSN-16mg (see <a
href="http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/transients.html">ASAS-SN
transients list</a>) on UT Oct. 29.15 with WFCCD mounted on the du Pont
2.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. The spectrum shows a blue continuum
with a series of He I lines in absorption. This spectrum is characteristic
of AM CVn systems in eruption. Follow-up observations are encouraged.