[vsnet-alert 22264] ASASSN-18ey: growing superhumps

Yasuyuki WAKAMATSU wakamatsu at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Thu Jun 28 23:58:14 JST 2018


ASASSN-18ey: growing superhumps

Geoff Stone, Michael Richmond, Ian Miller, Stephen Brincat,
Tonny Vanmunster, Josch Hambsch, Berto Monard and
Lew Cook have reported further observations.

The modulations like superhumps of this object are growing
to its amplitude of ~0.7 mag. The period of this signal is
0.6936(1) d (by a PDM analysis). This object is now about
13.3 mag and continues to brighten.
Further observations are strongly encouraged to investigate
a next behavior of this object.



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