[vsnet-alert 583] possible EUV ALEXIS transient

[Diane Roussel-Dupre <droussel-dupre@lanl.gov>]

ALEXIS has detected a potential transient in Telescope 3B (186 Angstroms,
66eV) at:

         RA= (23 38 17.88)
         DEC=(23 41.24)
         (Epoch 2000)

         Error circle radius = 0.4 degrees (~90% confidence)

There was no evidence of the object in the co-aligned telescope 3A (72
eV).  The source appeared to turn on about 16 UT 7 Nov and was either
slowly decaying or at a slightly dimmer state at 8 UT 9 Nov at which time
the satellite began to manuver off of the source and the exposure time on
source was halved. A search of the SIMBAD
database reveals 23 sources within the error box including the ROSAT source
RX J23367+2355.

Follow up observations are encouraged

                                                Diane Roussel-Dupre

for more information, see the ALEXIS web page

http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~asocops/




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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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