[vsnet-alert 466] ALEXIS Observations

[droussel-dupre@lanl.gov (Diane Roussel-Dupre)]

Per  earlier e-mails, ALEXIS is looking for help from groundbased observes
to try to identify the short duration potential transients that are
routinely observed by ALEXIS. Several of you responded that you might be
interested in helping after that first mailing. Since that time, we have
written up an ALEXIS transient Primer and have increased the capability of
our web page to aid collaborators to decide which potential transients have
the best potential. For those of you who might be interested in
participating in the project, the ALEXIS web page can be found at:

http://nis-www.lanl.gov/nis-projects/alexis/

Please register so we can keep track of users (helps with funding
justification, as well as let's us known who to contact if something really
exciting comes up).  Once registered, the Primer can be located below the
Daily Data Viewer. Access to the potential transient lists and fits to the
data are also availble from this level. Keep in mind that the daily data
maps can also be used by those of you who might have observed something
interesting and want to see if it was in the ALEXIS FOV.

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The next period of EUVE TOO observations starts at 17.2-Jul-1996 and ends
at 26.0-Jul-1996. We have an agreement with EUVE that transients with
good potential (above 7 significance level and within center +/- 10 degrees
of detector and with more than 100 sec of exposure observed) will be
rapidly slewed to for up to 4 orbits to see if EUVE can also observe the
source and get an improved position. The sources that are good candidates
for EUVE TOO observations will be labeled with a bright red TOO in the far
right hand column of the contact pages. These sources will be of special
interest for the next 1+ weeks. In addition to standard patrol images,
images taken in H alpha might be more sensitive to flare star outburst.
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Surf over and give us a look. If you know of anyone else who might be
interested, please pass along this message. Also, if you have any
questions/comments, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks in advance.

Diane Roussel-Dupre


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