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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:19:07 -0400
From: "Howard E. Bond" <bond@stsci.edu>
Subject: Re: New Object in HX Peg field
The field of the suspected transient near HX Peg was imaged with the SMARTS 1.3m
telescope at Cerro Tololo by Juan Espinoza as follows:
2003 Sep 21 02:14 UT = Sep 21.093
Sep 21 04:39 UT = Sep 21.194
Sep 21 06:42 UT = Sep 21.279
At each epoch, exposures of 3x300 sec were obtained in both V and I. Observing
conditions were non-photometric. None of the frames show any object near the
proposed position of Linnolt's optical transient [vsnet-alert 7862] located
south of star 155, down to a limit of V ~ 21 on our best frames.
We confirm Henden's finding [vsnet-alert 7892] that star 155 itself is variable,
having faded by ~0.1 mag over the interval indicated above. Pending evidence to
the contrary, it appears that star 155 itself may be the reported variable
object.
We thank Rebeccah Winnick and the SMARTS team for scheduling these observations
at very short notice.
Howard E. Bond
Space Telescope Science Institute
Juan Espinoza
SMARTS Consortium
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