[vsnet-chat 7425] Re: V503 Her
Ondrej Pejcha
ondrej.pejcha at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 05:00:15 JST 2008
>> Leftmost is V503 Her, which is in possible Symbiotic Star lists, but I'm
>> not
>> entirely clear if this object has been confirmed a Symbiotic star.
>> SIMBAD
>> has it as a pulsating variable. The ASAS3 lightcurve is interesting
>> enough,
>> with a strong eclipse event.
>
> A coincidence. I noticed the same fading yesterday. Ohshima-san
> regularly observed this object just *before* and *after* this event.
> It was an astronomical loss such an event went unnoticed real-time!
> However, the fading doesn't very much look like an eclipse of
> a symbiotic binary. The object shows pulsation-like variations other
> than this epoch, making the event resembling a deep minimum of
> something like an RV Tau-type variable, the period is too long for that,
> though.
In fact, there was another deep minimum just before the one observed by
ASAS. This is hinted in the MEDUZA data (
http://var2.astro.cz/meduza/light-curves-ccd.php?star=V%20503%20Her&shv=Her
). For convenience of the reader, I attach a plot combining the ASAS and
MEDUZA data in the V band.
Best regards,
Ondrej Pejcha
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