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10 October 2024 at 5:45 am #625633
Jeremy Shears
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Spectroscopy from the GOTO team leads them to suggest this is a WZ Sge type dwarf nova: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16858

If so, one might expect superhumps to develop.