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Re: BI Crucis and RS Ophiuchi > It doesn't suggest an eclipse at all, the red giant of this symbiotic system > is a mira with a 280 days period, so the rise and fall is due to the > pulsation of the LPV. See Rossi et al. (A&A 206, 279-284, 1988) for more > information. The 2003 minimum is at least 1 mag fainter than the past Mira pulsation minima. I wondered if an eclipse-like event may have been responsible. > Regarding another symbiotic, the recurrent nova RS Oph, I wonder if there is > any PEP sequence of its field > This must be one of the most observed stars and also one of the stars with > the worst sequence. Simply picking up ASAS-3 magnitudes of the objects around RS Oph wouldn't suffice? Though I haven't tried yet. Regards, Taichi Kato
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