Optical observations of the Gaia16adj

  • Posted on: 17 July 2026
  • By: SkazhenijAndrew

ASASSN-14eg/Gaia16adj/AT2016dre as a Gaia transient was discovered on 2019-02-22 05:18:14.000 by A. Delgado, D. Harrison, S. Hodgkin, M. van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (University of Cambridge), on behalf of Gaia Alerts team.

Follow-up observations were started on 2026 July 10 with a 0.4-m Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). The main dataset was obtained on 2026 July 12–16 with the 40-cm f/6.8 ODK telescope at Franz-Josef Hambsch's Remote Observatory Atacama Desert (ROAD), Chile. Results were published in The Astronomer's Telegram .

Periodogram for the lightcurve obtained on 15 of July 2026

Period of superhumps detected on 15 of July 2026