RY Sct

MISCLASSIFIED MILKY WAY
 
Constellation
Scutum
Equatorial coordinates
α = 18 25 31.477
δ = -12 41 24.225
Galactic coordinates
l = 18.7086°
b = -0.1265°

Suspected 1958Ref
Re-classified 2011Ref
Type Blue supergiant EBRef

Identifiers

RY Sct IRAS 18227-1243 GSC2.4.2 S9JR001327 AAVSO 000-BFL-467
SIMBAD V* RY Sct Pan-STARRS 92772763811692258 SAO 161458 VSX 34133
GAIA DR3 4152599133132654720 SkyMapper 182531.46-124124.1 WRAY - GCVS RY Sct
2MASS J18253147-1241241 HIP 90303 Hen 3-1694 BD -12 5045
WISE J182531.48-124124.0 TYC 5698-2356-1 ESO - HD 169515

Symbiotic Catalogs

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

Position

Right ascension (°) 276.3812Ref Parallax (mas) 0.475±0.022Ref Reddening E(B-V) (mag) 16.97±0.54Ref, Note
Declination (°) -12.6901Ref Distance (kpc) 1.96Ref, Note, 1.96Ref, Note    
Galactic longitude (°) 18.7086Ref Proper motion in α (mas/yr) -0.33±0.02Ref    
Galactic latitude (°) -0.1265Ref Proper motion in δ (mas/yr) -2.03±0.02Ref    

Links

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Notes

First mentioned as a probable symbiotic star by Tifft & Greenstein (1958), this star later appeared in the list of symbiotic stars observed by Swings & Allen (1972) and was also included in the catalog of suspected symbiotic stars by Vaidis (1988). However, RY Sct belongs to the class of W Ser massive binaries and was subsequently classified as a blue supergiant eclipsing binary system in Smith et al. (2011), with component masses of 8 and 30 M☉. The classification as a classical Cepheid in Jayasinghe et al. (2019) appears to be incorrect.


References


Last updated: March 18, 2022