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