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   PR # 43011
   The EUV transient source RE~J1255+266 was, temporarily, the brightest
   object in the EUV sky in 1994. We have now identified this system
   with a 18 mag. emission line star. A follow-up optical study suggests
   RE~J1255+266 may be an accretion-powered system, i.e. a cataclysmic
   variable which should, by analogy with related systems, have a
   detectable hard flux in quiescence. The ASCA observation we propose
   will provide the first hard X-ray data on this object. ASCA X-ray
   spectroscpy will provide a powerful diagnostic of the accretion
   processes taking place in this unusual system, since the spectrum is
   expected to be dominated by thermal X-ray emission.
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