CAL86

According to Schmidtke et al., the X-ray source CAL 86 in the direction of the LMC was confirmed to be a short-period cataclysmic variable with a short period (0.0660 d). The object reached mag 14 at maximum (amplitude 5 mag). The light curve presented is typical of an SU UMa-type superoutburst. Please monitor this object, and make time-series photometry when a new outburst is detected (vsnet-campaign-dn 2561).


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