[vsnet-campaign-be 235] Re: [vsnet-be 120] Re: delta Sco: first magnitude star??

["Sebastian Otero" <varsao@fullzero.com.ar>]

Dear Thom and all,

> 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.

Sorry for any confussion I could have caused and my rish in telling that the
conclussions were "totally" wrong.
Actually most of them still holds and as we could see from Galileo's data, a
71 days lull was apparent again recently.
What I meant is that the "long-term maximum" mentioned in our paper ended up
not being the real maximum.
There seems to have been a more rapid than expected drop of brightness
followed by a total recovery of the lightcurve which now follows its way up.
Watching delta Sco at 1.6 is so exciting that I can even handle my own
tongue (or fingers in this case...)

Apologies,
Sebastian.