Re: ASAS 002511 - TASS observations

[Stupendous Man <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>]

  Michael Sallman wrote:

> Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to what about it 
> identifies it as a dwarf nova versus a blazar? The superhumps?

  Superhumps, yes, that's a dead giveaway.  Also, if you look up 
this star in the USNO B1.0 (which you can reach from SIMBAD or
Aladin), you'll see that it has a proper motion of -70 milliarcsec
per year with an uncertainty of about 6 milliarcseconds per year.
That's a very significant proper motion, which indicates an object
within our own galaxy.

  I would also suspect that the lack of very strong radio emission
would disqualify it as a blazar ... at least, I don't know of radio
emission from the object.  Hmm.  No, it appears that there is no
radio source at this position in the NVSS (a radio survey at 21 cm
by the VLA).  Some (most? all?) blazars are strong radio sources.

                                     Michael