[vsnet-alert 22302] Re: MASTER OT J113218.1-301832.6: long outburst from a nearby dwarf

[Brian Skiff]

On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 07:53 +0900, Taichi Kato wrote:
> MASTER OT J113218.1-301832.6: long outburst from a nearby dwarf
> 
>    This object is a nearby dwarf.  Gaia parallax = 21.6mas.
> Long outburst (flare?) is unusual for such a dwarf and
> observations are needed.
> 
>    This object has a common proper motion object
> 2MASS 113218.317 -301951.81 (2000.0) 9.641 9.030 8.765, Gaia G=15.23
> 
> ===
> 
> ATEL #11841							     ATEL #11841
> 
> Title:	MASTER-OAFA: AGN outburst...


     Out in the wider astro world, this star is TWA 30B,
which as Taichi-san notes, is the fainter component of a
common-motion pair that is part of the TW Hya association,
which is a fairly nearby young moving-group system.


\Brian