[vsnet-newvar 2784] CSS090531:222724+284404

Hiroyuki Maehara mira at cetus-net.org
Sun May 31 20:25:09 JST 2009


 The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (Drake et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 870)
discovered a new transient CSS090531:222724+284404.

905311291064116657 2009-05-31T10:20:06 2009-05-31T10:16:17 22 27 24.49 +28 44 03.8 4.320 14.51 14.48 14.51 14.50  http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/20090531/905311291064116657.html

 There is a 17 mag blue object at the reported position in the USNO A2.0
Catalog. According to the CRTS data, a quiescence magnitude of the object
is around 18 mag. The object is likely a new dwarf nova with an outburst
amplitude of 3-4 mag.


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