V479 And

MISCLASSIFIED MILKY WAY

Constellation
Andromeda

Equatorial coordinates
α = 00 18 56.926
δ = +34 54 44.179

Galactic coordinates
l = 115.4277°
b = -27.4856°

Suspected	2013^Ref
Re-classified	2013^Ref
Type	polar^Ref

Identifiers

V479 And	IRAS -	GSC2.4.2 NBH2007777	AAVSO 000-BFT-010
SIMBAD V* V479 And	Pan-STARRS 149890047371965359	SAO -	VSX 131986
GAIA DR3 2876157251000218496	SkyMapper -	WRAY -	GCVS V0479 And
2MASS J00185691+3454441	HIP -	Hen -	BD -
WISE J001856.92+345444.2	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 (°)	4.7372^Ref	Parallax (mas)	0.476±0.073^Ref	Reddening E(B-V) (mag)	0.05±0.0^Ref ^{, Note}
Declination (°)	34.9123^Ref	Distance (kpc)	2.03^Ref ^{, Note}, 2.28^Ref ^{, Note}
Galactic longitude (°)	115.4277^Ref	Proper motion in α (mas/yr)	-4.95±0.08^Ref
Galactic latitude (°)	-27.4856^Ref	Proper motion in δ (mas/yr)	-3.41±0.08^Ref

Links

SIMBAD CDS Portal

Notes

Initially suspected by González-Buitrago et al. (2013), this object was later reclassified as a polar in a study by González-Buitrago et al. (2013), revealing an orbital period of 0.59 days.

References

González-Buitrago, D., Tovmassian, G., Echevarría, J. et al., 2013, IAUS, 281, 113, 2013IAUS..281..113B
González-Buitrago, D., Tovmassian, G., Zharikov, S. et al., 2013, A&A, 553, A28, 2013A&A...553A..28G

Last updated: April 12, 2021