[vsnet-alert 22793] ASASSN-18aao: 8-mag amplitude dwarf nova candidate in Aquarius

[Denis Denisenko d.v.denisenko@gmail.com via vsnet-alert]

ASASSN-18aao
  20181128.1207  >182g   ASAS-SN (Shappee et al., 2014; Kochanek et al., 2017)
  20181129.0775  15.19g  ASAS-SN  Outburst!
  20181129.0788  15.23g  ASAS-SN
  20181129.0800  15.18g  ASAS-SN
  20181130.1181  14.60g  ASAS-SN  Rising
  20181130.1193  14.53g  ASAS-SN
  20181130.1205  14.51g  ASAS-SN
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/2787c7c2-fd4f-468c-8485-91bc5a545c49

There is a blue match in SDSS and PanSTARRS:
SDSS J215149.66-032932.6
u=22.69(38) g=22.37(11) r=22.49(19) i=21.96(17) z=21.45(36)

Nearbly galaxy 2MFGC 16495 is unrelated (at z=0.06678 the 14.5m
supernova would require unrealisitically bright absolute magnitude of
about -23).

Denis Denisenko