For reporting and commenting upon new observations of astronomical transients by the professional astrophysics community.

• ATel 2829: Fermi LAT detection of a GeV flare from B2 0619+33

  The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of the two instruments on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed an increased gamma-ray flux from a source positionally consistent with the radio source B2 0619+33/VCS J0622+3326 (RA: 06h22m52.221945s, Dec: +33d26m10.41027s, J2000; Kovalev et al. ...

• ATel 2828: The continued flaring activity of LS V +44 17/RX J0440.9+4431

  During the Galactic latitude scan campaign performed by the INTEGRAL observatory, currently operating at the Galactic longitude of l=155 deg, we observed the brightening of a source positionally consistent with the known Be/X-ray binary LS V +44 17 (also known as RX J0440.9+4431). ...

• ATel 2827: Candidate optical counterparts of XTE J1728-295 = IGR J17285-2922

  Following the refined position of the faint X-ray transient XTE J1728-295 (ATel #2824) also named IGR J17285-2922 and currently in outburst (ATel #2823, #2825), we report a search for the optical counterpart using the Faulkes Telescope South (located at Siding Spring, Australia). ...

• ATel 2826: Classification of SN 2010hb, an early Type II supernova

  The Nearby Supernova Factory reports the classification of supernova SN 2010hb (CBET 2424). A spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) obtained Aug 27.5 UTC with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope reveals SN 2010hb to be a young Type II SN, estimated at 1-2 weeks after explosion. ...

• ATel 2825: INTEGRAL confirms that XTE J1728-295 = IGR J17285-2922

  Following the renewed activity of XTE J1728-295 and its probable association with IGR J17285-2922 (ATels #2823, #2824), we searched for a coincident outburst of the source in the data from the on-going INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program (see ATel #438). ...

• ATel 2824: Swift/XRT follow-up and a refined position of the X-ray transient XTE J1728-295

  Following the report of the newly detected outburst of the transient XTE J1728-295 (possibly IGR J17285-2922 detected by INTEGRAL) in the RXTE PCA bulge scans (ATel #2823), we requested a Swift ToO observation to follow up the source based on the position given by the RXTE PCA best fit results (ATel #2823). ...

• ATel 2823: RXTE PCA Detection of a New Outburst of XTE J1728-295 (probably IGR J17285-2922)

  We report the detection of a new outburst of a source designated XTE J1728-295 in the RXTE PCA scans, which is probably the same as IGR J17285-2922. ...

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