[vsnet-alert 11329] OT_J203224.7+602836 = ROTSE3 Transient

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OT_J203224.7+602836 = ROTSE3 J203225+602837 = ROTSE3 J203224.8+602837

ATEL 1642 http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=1642 announced a candidate CV on behalf of the ROTSE3 transient survey

wherein the RA coordinate precision instead of being one more than the Dec coordinate precision as per IAU nomenclature guidelines is the same thereas.

ATEL 2162 http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=2126 has ROTSE3 confirm the candidate with after roughly one year another outburst detection and also giving a spectrum similar in profile to that of for example the SDSS outburst spectrum of KS UMa 

< http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/get/specById.asp?id=254678354244927488>

and where within the ATEL the RA and Dec coordinates are _rounded _ instead of _truncated _ as they should be as per IAU nomenclature guidelines.

Therefore I have arbitrarily renamed the transient, as is not unprecedented on vsnet alert, to emulate the correct IAU guidelines, and done so in the manner usually and regularly followed on vsnet alert, taking that as the precedent of the format for doing such things.

No doubt later I can include it under this identifier in a paper, albeit noting the original source once and referencing said but primarily using the new identifier in the body text of the paper, and submit said to some periodical or other, for example PASJ.  Which again is not unprecedented.

As this is continual and standard practice in some cases there should be no problem with this.  Or does it not count if JG does it instead of KT?

John


PS Of course the ROTSE3 identifier is less ambiguous than CSS.  Classical CSS is numerical rather than coordinate based but despite that the name is still already used.  Except CDS is on top of that sort of thing, not only with the original CSS itself in formalising that name and solving some numeric vagary between respective classical CSS editions, but also having a system when such cases arise, usually at the most basic level appended a relevant paper date and square brackets, something like [CSS2009], thus trying to retain a bibliographic context.

If something can't be attributed to anything it is usually prefixed EQ_J if an equatorial coordinate based name.  OT for optical transient points nowhere with respect to source, and ironically on vsnet is invariably cataclysmic variables which constitute a small fraction of a nowadays wide range of optical transient classes and types, albeit the optical transient class being observationally most frequent and astrophysically least interesting.


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