[vsnet-alert 562] Potential ALEXIS EUV transient

[Jeff Bloch <jbloch@nis.lanl.gov>]

The ALEXIS Satellite has detected a potential EUV transient in telescope 
2B (93eV/130 Angstrom bandpass). The co-aligned 186 Angstrom/66 eV 
telescope did not detect the source, although the coverage for that 
telescope is poor due to high background effects.

The best fit location is:  RA= 01h 32m 29s DEC= -28d 23m 30s +/- 0.3 degrees.

The source turned on sometime between 18UT 10/10/96 and 6UT 10/11/96 and 
may have turned off again ~23UT 10/11/96, but the data coverage at that 
time was poor. We will have more data from the satellite by 10AM MDT 10/13.

Follow-up observations are greatly appreciated.


							Jeff Bloch


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