[vsnet-alert 23954] Gaia17chk/AT 2017grj (super?) outburst

andrew_simon at univ.kiev.ua andrew_simon at univ.kiev.ua
Thu Feb 13 03:00:45 JST 2020


Dear group!

According to the recent results, which we have obtained with the aid of
our data processing system aimed at finding new events in the Gaia alerts
data, a new interesting event was found. So we would like to ask you to
observe the following object:

Gaia17chk / AT 2017grj (13:27:59.60   -32:20:26.92)

On February 08, 2020 its increasing G magnitude was 19.33
(http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia17chk/). Previous outburst
has an amplitude more than 5 mag according to Gaia data.

Also according to data from ASAS-SN Sky Patrol
(https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/d97b5687-5da0-4368-8be0-7fdc5f23456f)
object has g magnitude 15.73 on 2020-02-11.3529134.

We acknowledge ESA Gaia, DPAC and the Photometric Science Alerts Team
(http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts)



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