WRAY 15-906

MISCLASSIFIED MILKY WAY

Constellation
Centaurus

Equatorial coordinates
α = 11 54 43.523
δ = -63 13 31.170

Galactic coordinates
l = 296.5959°
b = -1.0534°

Suspected	1976^Ref
Re-classified	2020^Ref
Type	LBV^Ref

Identifiers

WRAY 15-906	IRAS -	GSC2.4.2 S493000120	AAVSO -
SIMBAD WRAY 15-906	Pan-STARRS -	SAO -	VSX 57446
GAIA DR3 5333080274685374720	SkyMapper -	WRAY 15-906	GCVS -
2MASS J11544353-6313311	HIP -	Hen 3-729	BD -
WISE J115443.53-631331.2	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 (°)	178.6813^Ref	Parallax (mas)	0.197±0.022^Ref	Reddening E(B-V) (mag)	4.2±0.82^Ref ^{, Note}
Declination (°)	-63.2253^Ref	Distance (kpc)	4.58^Ref ^{, Note}, 4.75^Ref ^{, Note}
Galactic longitude (°)	296.5959^Ref	Proper motion in α (mas/yr)	-5.91±0.02^Ref
Galactic latitude (°)	-1.0534^Ref	Proper motion in δ (mas/yr)	1.29±0.02^Ref

Links

SIMBAD CDS Portal

Notes

Suspected in Henize (1976). Later, this object has been considered a possible WR star according to Reed (2003). Maryeva et al. (2020) classified it as a luminous blue variable.

References

Henize, K. G., 1976, ApJS, 30, 491, 1976ApJS...30..491H
Maryeva, O. V., Gvaramadze, V. V., Kniazev, A. Y. et al., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 4, 5093, 2020MNRAS.498.5093M
Reed, B. C., 2003, AJ, 125, 5, 2531, 2003AJ....125.2531R

Last updated: April 12, 2021