[vsnet-alert 25020] V1068 Per outburst (since Nov. 26)

Fri Nov 27 19:29:14 JST 2020

 V1068 Persei (UGSS:)
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=276879

Patrick Wiggins reports that V1068 Per is in outburst
in CCD images that were taken by him tonight on my
request (in the course of our CV monitoring programme).

Complete ASAS-SN Sky Patrol (Shappee et al. 2014ApJ...788...48S
and Kochanek et al. 2017PASP..129j4502K) light curve and data:
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/60f84a07-b51f-4301-bf15-baf275388f1e
PerV1068 20201124.308 15.52g ASN
PerV1068 20201126.230 13.61g ASN

Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) light curve and data:
https://lasair.roe.ac.uk/object/ZTF18ablqcev/
PerV1068 20201115.223 15.45zg ZTF
PerV1068 20201119.245 15.44zg ZTF
PerV1068 20201126.115 13.89zr ZTF
PerV1068 20201126.234 14.04zg ZTF
[ZTF= Zwicky Transient Facility Lasair (Masci+ 2019)]

Previously recorded outbursts:
2012 January 26-31
2015 July 28 - August 9
2016 August 11
2017 July 25 - August 7
2018 November 19 - December 5
2019 July 3-6
2020 April 18

Clear skies,
Patrick
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     Am Sonntag, 19. April 2020, 02:57:55 MESZ hat Kirill Sokolovsky <kirx at scan.sai.msu.ru> Folgendes geschrieben:  

 V1068 Per = XMMSL1 J014956.7+533504 type UG (uncertain subtype)
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=276879
was observed in outburst on
2020-04-18.7637  2458958.2637 CV=12.99

The observation 18 hours earlier found the object in quiescence:
2020-04-18.0288  2458957.5288 CV>13.5

This dwarf nova was identified back in 2012
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J01495677+5335018.html
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=3896

The ASAS-SN lightcurve 
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/71eb2b2d-d163-4686-a087-7647ee905eec
shows additional outbursts on
2015-07-28
2016-08-11
2017-07-25
2018-11-19

Our images were obtained in the course of the NMW survey
described here: http://scan.sai.msu.ru/nmw/

Best wishes,
Kirill Sokolovsky and Stanislav Korotkiy