BF Ara : Short supercycle system

R. Stubbings detected an outburst on March 6. After a few days blank of observations, a brightening was reported on March 15. Since then, the outburst lasted until at least March 23 with a gradual fading (vsnet-campaign-dn 597, 609). The next outburst was reported on May 27 by A. Pearce (vsnet-campaign 948). The object had faded on May 31 (vsnet-campaign-dn 868).

Other related articles: vsnet-campaign-dn 604

Preprint: T. Kato et al. "Detection of Supercycle in BF Ara: Normal SU UMa-type Dwarf Nova with the Shortest Supercycle", IBVS 5119
(vsnet-perprint 42 or ftp://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/preprints/BF_Ara/)

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