Discovery of Two Probable Novae in M31
ATel #11381; E. Ovcharov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), A. Valcheva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), M. Minev (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), A. Kostov (IA-NAO, BAS), P. Nedialkov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
on 8 Mar 2018; 02:43 UT
Credential Certification: Evgeni Ovcharov (evgeni@phys.uni-sofia.bg)
Referred to by ATel #: 11402
We report the discovery of two nova candidates in M31 on 3x300sec co-added R-band CCD images taken with the 50/70cm Schmidt telescope at NAO Rozhen, Bulgaria.
The first nova candidate is located at RA(2000) = 0h43m44s.10, Dec(2000) = +41o37'23".08, which is 674".0 east and 1274".6 north of the center of M31.
Available R-band magnitude on 2018 03 07.746 UT - 17.46 +/- 0.03.
The second nova candidate is located at RA(2000) = 0h45m21s.33, Dec(2000) = +41o12'28".66, which is 1770".2 east and 219".9 south of the center of M31.
Available R-band magnitude on 2018 03 07.746 UT - 19.29 +/- 0.10.
This work was supported in part by the NSF Bulgaria grant DN18/10-11.12.2017.
