[vsnet-alert 23671] Re: ASASSN-19aad (= TCP J18395972-1025415): probable nova (9.4 mag) in Scutum

Wed Oct 30 07:26:39 JST 2019

 ASASSN-19aad (N)
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=1499545

"Spectroscopic Classification of AT 2019tpb/ASASSN-19aad
as a Galactic Nova" (ATel #13241):
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13241

Regards,
Patrick
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     Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2019, 13:35:13 MEZ hat Patrick Schmeer pasc1312-aavso at yahoo.de via vsnet-alert <vsnet-alert at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Folgendes geschrieben:  

 ASASSN-19aad (= AT 2019tpb, TCP J18395972-1025415)

Discovery details:
R.A. 18h39m59.70s, Decl. -10°25'41.5" (J2000.0, K. Itagaki's follow-up obs.)
2019 October 29.0578 UT, gmag. 11.56 (ASAS-SN)
Discoverer: All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)

Links:
https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2019tpb
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J18395972-1025415.html
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/f4d4863d-ca2a-4238-9adb-04bdd551bac9
http://k-itagaki.jp/images/PN-sct.jpg

Looks like a (reddened) nova that erupted on 2019 October 28.
Spectroscopy and multiband-photometry (also precise astrometry)
are urgently required.

Clear skies,
Patrick