BRITE nanosatellite serendipitously captures oscillatory rise and fall of ASASSN-18fv

Author(s)
R. Kuschnig, A. Pigulski, A. F. J. Moffat, J. M. Matthews, K. Zwintz, D. Baade, G. Handler, W. W. Weiss, G. A. Wade, S. M. Rucinski, H. Pablo, O. Koudelka, R. Smolec, A. Popowicz, C. Neiner, J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, C. Lovekin, N. St-Louis, A. A. Pamyatnykh, J. Rowe, P. Orleanski, S. Mochnacki, A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny
Abstract

One of the five satellites in BRITE-Constellation (http://www.brite-constellation.at/) was obtaining time-series optical photometry of the star HD 92063, only 2 arcmin from the 'Possible, Very Bright Galactic Nova ASASSN-18fv' reported on 21 March 2018 (2018-03-20.32) by ATel #11454.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
External organisation(s)
Silesian University of Technology
Journal
The Astronomer's Telegram
Volume
11508
No. of pages
1
Publication date
04-2018
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/1b41fbb3-db88-4263-8e85-5929dc5a99dc