ASASSN-17ib: Possible Galactic Nova (12.5 mag) in Scutum

AAX
Affiliation
Nucleo de Estudo e Observacao Astronomica - Jose Brazilicio de Souza (Florianopolis, Brazil) (NEOA-JBS)
Fri, 06/23/2017 - 17:52

ASAS-SN Discovery of a Possible Galactic Nova ASASSN-17ib on the Rise

RA = 18:31:45.918 Dec = -14:18:55.57 (J2000.0)

K. Z. Stanek et al.: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10523

ASASSN-17ib 20170613.21 <17.1 ASN

ASASSN-17ib 20170619.41 14.7 ASN

ASASSN-17ib 20170623.47 12.5 ASN

Sebastian__Otero
ASASSN-17ib is ASASSN-17hx

The object recently announced as ASASSN-17ib had already been published two days ago as ASASSN-17hx.
There is a 19.1 Gaia magnitude star at that position so the outburst has an amplitude of only 7 mag. up to now. Let's see how it evolves.

Cheers,
Sebastian

SPK
Affiliation
Association Française des Observateurs d'Étoiles Variables (AFOEV)
ASASSN-17ib = ASASSN-17hx (ATel #10524)

Quote: "To avoid confusion, ASASSN-17hx name should be used, but we will not assign ASASSN-17ib designation to another object."

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10524

luckas
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Updated spectroscopic monitoring of ASASSN-17hx (ATel #10558)

Title: Continuing spectroscopic monitoring of Nova Sct 2017 = ASASSN-17hx
Author: Paolo Berardi, Woody Sims, and Umberto  Sollecchia (ARAS Group)

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10558

jji
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Photometry

Go to the very bottom of the VSP request form and select the colors you want.  For this star B,V,Rc,Ic is available.  At this time, there is no Sloan photometry.

jji
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
gri.. photometry

According to Arne the best and easiest source for Sloan values is for the user to query APASS 9,  https://www.aavso.org/download-apass-data, and  manually get the Sloan photometry for the sequence star in question.

I gave it a try and if you use a very small radius like 0.01 degrees, it will usually return just the star in question.

Jim Jones

Sequence Team