[vsnet-campaign-be 234] Re: [vsnet-be 119] Re: delta Sco: first magnitude star??

[Thom Gandet <tgandet@mindspring.com>]

Sebastian Otero wrote:
>
> Take it easy, delta Sco is brightening but by that time it was at 
> V= 1.67 (Brian Fraser's PEP and my visual observations).  Anyway we 
> can't rule out this possibility, since the supposed end of the 
> outburst that we mentioned in IBVS 5352 
> (http://vsnet.konkoly.hu/cgi-bin/IBVS?5352) was totally wrong.

As the senior author of the paper Sebastian refers to, I have a
couple of comments to make.

For those who haven't read our paper and to correct impressions 
Sebastian may have left by his comment, we did not claim, predict or
even hazard a guess, when the outburst might end.  We determined 
only a probable start date of the eruption based on our data which
we compared with a start date predicted by independent spectroscopic
means; the two dates were in good qualitative agreement.

We also stated very clearly that the future behavior of the star
could not be predicted based on its past behavior, and we made no
such predictions.

Cordially,
Thom Gandet