2XMM J174016.0-290337

MISCLASSIFIED MILKY WAY

Constellation
Ophiucus

Equatorial coordinates
α = 17 40 16.099
δ = -29 03 38.050

Galactic coordinates
l = 359.2788°
b = 0.9299°

Suspected	2010^Ref
Re-classified	2012^Ref
Type	dwarf nova^Ref

Identifiers

2XMM J174016.0-290337	IRAS -	GSC2.4.2 S8DN024959	AAVSO -
SIMBAD AX J1740.3-2904	Pan-STARRS 73122650670707623	SAO -	VSX 241973
GAIA DR3 4060143669944331648	SkyMapper 174016.10-290338.0	WRAY -	GCVS V3037 Oph
2MASS -	HIP -	Hen -	BD -
WISE -	TYC -	ESO -	HD -

Symbiotic Catalogs

Bidelman (1954)	-	Allen (1984)	-	Belzcyński et al. (2001)	-
Gaposchkin (1957)	-	Kenyon (1986)	-	Akras et al. (2019)	-
Boyarchuk (1969)	-	Vaidis (1988, 1991)	-

Position

Right ascension (°)	265.0671^Ref	Parallax (mas)	0.769±0.162^Ref	Reddening E(B-V) (mag)	4.39±0.84^Ref ^{, Note}
Declination (°)	-29.0606^Ref	Distance (kpc)	1.71^Ref ^{, Note}, 1.55^Ref ^{, Note}
Galactic longitude (°)	359.2788^Ref	Proper motion in α (mas/yr)	-2.24±0.24^Ref
Galactic latitude (°)	0.9299^Ref	Proper motion in δ (mas/yr)	-3.29±0.14^Ref

Links

SIMBAD CDS Portal

Notes

Initially suspected by Farrell et al. (2010), this star was later reclassified as a dwarf nova by Masetti et al. (2012).

References

Farrell, S. A., Gosling, A. J., Webb, N. A. et al., 2010, A&A, 523, A50, 2010A&A...523A..50F
Masetti, N., Parisi, P., Jiménez-Bailón, E. et al., 2012, A&A, 538, A123, 2012A&A...538A.123M

Last updated: August 22, 2021