QW Ser : Superoutburst in February
P. Schmeer detected an outburst of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova
QW Ser on January 25. The last observed outburst was a superoutburst
started on 2001July 5. Prior to that one, P. Schmeer had found three
other outbursts: 1999 Oct. 4 (supermaximum), 2000 Jan. 4 (normal),
May 1 (normal)
(vsnet-campaign 714).
The object rapidly faded from the maximum of this outburst
(vsnet-campaign 731),
and then, a genuine superoutburst was triggered on February 2
(vsnet-campaign 740).
R. Novak reported his detection of superhumps during the outburst
(vsnet-campaign-dn 470).
The superoutburst continued until February 12 when the Kyoto team
detected a considerable fading
(vsnet-campaign-dn 476).
The next outburst was reported on April 29 by R. Stubbings
(vsnet-campaign 887).
The light curve obtained by R. Novak showed only linear fading
modulated by some flickering
(vsnet-campaign-dn 741).
A relatively rapid fading was reported, but the decline rate was
rather slow for normal outbursts
(vsnet-campaign-dn 730,
738).
On June 18, M. Simonsen reported an outburst of 13.7mag, which was a
normal outburst
(vsnet-campaign-dn 913,
920).
vsnet-campaign 750,
vsnet-campaign-dn 415,
418,
461,
465,
468,
466,
469,
472,
487,
478,
485,
724,
726,
729,
917