[vsnet-alert 25783] Re: ASASSN-21gk: strange light curve

[Siegfried Vanaverbeke siegfriedvanaverbeke@gmail.com via vsnet-alert]

Indeed it doesn't appear consistent with microlensing from your description
of the lightcurve.

Siegfried

Op za 1 mei 2021 om 02:58 schreef Taichi Kato <tkato at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>:

> ASASSN-21gk: strange light curve
>
>    Josch Hambsch has reported observatioons.
> This object (microlensing?) has shown a very unusual
> light curve.  Rapid rise on Apr. 22, around maximum
> on Apr. 25, faint on Apr. 27, rapid fade on Apr. 29,
> rapid rise on Apr. 30.  Such a variation would not
> expected for a simple microlensing.
> Spectroscopy is needed.
>
>