[vsnet-alert 21327] Re: TCP J00332502-3518565: new transient (12.8 mag) in Sculptor

[Patrick Schmeer pasc1312-aavso@yahoo.de via vsnet-alert]

TCP J00332502-3518565 = ASASSN-17km

ASAS-SN Transients
Mon Aug 7 12:32:30 EDT 2017 (= 16:32:30 UTC):
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/transients.html

ASASSN-17km
0:33:25.09 -35:18:56.7 2017-08-5.33 14.72
bright CV candidate, matches to USNO B=20.8 and GALEX,
V>17.2 on 2017-08-03.19, V=14.7 on 2017-08-05.34,
V=12.7 on 2017-08-07.17.

TCPJ00332502-3518565 20170803.19 <172V ASN
TCPJ00332502-3518565 20170805.34  147V ASN
TCPJ00332502-3518565 20170807.17  127V ASN

A VSX entry has been created by Sebastian
Otero and me:
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=512897

Regards.
Patrick

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Patrick Schmeer <pasc1312-aavso at yahoo.de> wrote:

Subject: TCP J00332502-3518565: new transient (12.8 mag) in Sculptor
 
TCP J00332502-3518565  (UG:)

RA 00h33m25.13s, DEC -35°18'55.7" (J2000.0)
2017 August 5.7854 UT, 13.3 mag;
5.8074, 12.8 (both CCD, unfiltered)
Discoverer: Shigehisa Fujikawa, Kan'onji, Kagawa, Japan

For more information see
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J00332502-3518565.html

Presumably a dwarf nova (UGWZ?) in outburst
(amplitude at least 6 magnitudes).
Spectroscopy and time-resolved photometry
are urgently required.

Clear skies,
Patrick