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    • VVV-WIT-01: highly obscured classical nova or protostellar collision? 

      Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D.; Kamble, A.; Kaplan, D. L.; Cross, N.; Dekany, I.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kurtev, R.; Saito, R. K.; Smith, L. C.; Catelan, M.; Masetti, N.; Toledo, I.; Hempel, M.; Thompson, M. A.; Peña, C. Contreras; Forbrich, J.; Krause, M.; Dale, J.; Borissova, J.; Emerson, J.P. (2020-03)
      A search of the first Data Release of the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) Survey discovered the exceptionally red transient VVV-WIT-01 (H-Ks=5.2). It peaked before March 2010, then faded by ~9.5 mag over the following ...