[vsnet-alert 24303] Re: PQ And in outburst!

[Taichi Kato]

Re: PQ And in outburst!

> PQ And in outburst!

   This is, of course, of utmost importance.
This object was discovered as Nova And 1988 and
the current outburst nearly 32 years after the previous one!

   According to IAUC 4620,

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/04600/04620.html

Information received some weeks ago indicates that a spectrogram
was obtained of D. McAdam's variable in Andromeda (IAUC 4570, 4577,
4579) with the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope, La Palma, on Apr. 1, but
various computer problems have prevented recovery of the data.  A
preliminary inspection of the object's spectrum at the time apparently
showed the presence of strong O III emission.

   So the spectrum in outburst was present only in
observer's memory.  It is the time to take a solid one!

   The object is almost certainly a WZ Sge star and
was suggested to be a period bouncer (Patterson et al. 2005).
Observations of early superhumps and growth of ordinary
superhumps are extremely important (in the morning short
observing window).

   There were only few observers who visually witnessed
the 1988 outburst (I was among them).  So get up early
and add this object to your "life list" of outbursting
dwarf novae (such concept is called "lifer" in birding).