SS 295
        
      
        
  
    | SUSPECTED
    MILKY WAY 
 
| Constellation Ophiucus
 | Equatorial coordinates α = 17 07 38.148
 δ =  -07 44 48.686
 | Galactic coordinates l = 13.3077°
 b = 18.9313°
 |  
 
| Suspected | 2018Ref |  
| Confirmed | - |  
| Symbiotic IR type | S?Ref |  
| Hot component type | accreting-only?Ref |  
| Outbursts | - |  |  | 
     
    
    
      
      
  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 (°) | 256.9090Ref | Parallax (mas) | 0.069±0.014Ref | Reddening E(B-V) (mag) | 0.44±0.01Ref, Note | 
| Declination (°) | -7.7469Ref | Distance (kpc) | 11.58Ref, Note, 11.42Ref, Note |  |  | 
| Galactic longitude (°) | 13.3077Ref | Proper motion in α (mas/yr) | -6.52±0.02Ref |  |  | 
| Galactic latitude (°) | 18.9313Ref | Proper motion in δ (mas/yr) | -6.64±0.01Ref |  |  | 
 
  
  
Observations
  
     | X-Ray | - | IR type | S?Ref | Radio | - | 
   
     | X-Ray type | - | J (mag) | 9.63Ref | Flickering | - | 
   
     | GALEX FUV (mag) | - | H (mag) | 8.57Ref | Outbursts | - | 
   
     | GALEX NUV (mag) | - | K (mag) | 8.25Ref | Outburst type | - | 
   
     | IUE | NoRef | WISE W1 (mag) | 8.13Ref | Jets | - | 
   
     | FUSE | NoRef | WISE W2 (mag) | 8.11Ref | Resolved nebula | - | 
   
     | U (mag) | - | WISE W3 (mag) | 7.72Ref | IPmax (eV) | - | 
   
     | B (mag) | 14.34Ref | WISE W4 (mag) | 7.15Ref | [O III] lines | - | 
   
     | V (mag) | 13.10Ref | IRAS 12μm (Jy) | - | He II lines | - | 
   
     | R (mag) | - | IRAS 25μm (Jy) | - | [Fe VII] lines | - | 
   
     | I (mag) | - | IRAS 60μm (Jy) | - | O VI lines | - | 
   
     | BP (mag) | 13.22Ref | IRAS 100μm (Jy) | - |  |  | 
   
     | G (mag) | 12.20Ref | AKARI S09 (Jy) | - |  |  | 
   
     | RP (mag) | 11.19Ref | AKARI S18 (Jy) | - |  |  | 
 
Orbit
| Orbital period (days) | 471.11±13.94Ref | γ velocity (km/h) | 37.47±1.50Ref | Size of giant’s orbit (AU) | - | 
| Eccentricity | 0.17±0.1Ref | RV of giant (km/h) | - | Separation (AU) | - | 
| Inclination (°) | - | Inferior conj. of giant (JD) | - | Mass function | - | 
| Eclipses | - |  |  | Mass ratio | - | 
| Orbital ephemeris | - |  |  |  |  | 
 
Cool component
| Spectral type | - | Mass (M⊙) | - | Pulsation | - | 
| Eff. temperature (K) | - | Radius (R⊙) | - | Type | - | 
| IR type | S?Ref | Luminosity (L⊙) | - | Pulsation period (days) | - | 
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | - |  |  | Pulsation ephemeris | - | 
 
Hot component
| Type/Spectral type | - | Mass (M⊙) | - | Spin period (min) | - | 
  | Shell-burning/Accreting-only | accreting-only?Ref | Radius (R⊙) | - | Accretion disk | - | 
  | Eff. temperature (K) | - | Luminosity (L⊙) | - |  |  | 
  | Lower limit (K) | - |  |  |  |  | 
| Upper limit (K) | - |  |  |  |  | 
 
Notes
Symbiotic candidate selected for AAVSO observing campaing (AAVSO Alert Notice 650) by Adrian B. Lucy (Columbia University).
 
References
- Beck, P. G., Grossmann, D. H., Steinwender, L. et al., 2023, arXiv, arXiv:2307.10812, 2023arXiv230710812B
 
Last updated: January 13, 2024