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

P. W. Lucas, D. Minniti, A. Kamble +18

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 ($H-K_s=5.2$). It peaked before March…