V520 Mon

MISCLASSIFIED MILKY WAY
 
Constellation
Monoceros
Equatorial coordinates
α = 06 55 12.434
δ = -01 28 53.534
Galactic coordinates
l = 214.6801°
b = 0.1629°

Suspected 2022Ref
Re-classified 2022Ref
Type Be/X-ray binaryRef

Identifiers

V520 Mon IRAS - GSC2.4.2 S3A7000303 AAVSO 000-BCW-408
SIMBAD V* V520 Mon Pan-STARRS 106221038018222632 SAO - VSX 19348
GAIA DR3 3112116539430781824 SkyMapper 065512.43-012853.5 WRAY - GCVS V0520 Mon
2MASS J06551243-0128535 HIP - Hen - BD -
WISE J065512.43-012853.6 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 (°) 103.8018Ref Parallax (mas) 0.244±0.019Ref Reddening E(B-V) (mag) 0.59±0.01Ref, Note
Declination (°) -1.4815Ref Distance (kpc) 4Ref
3.62Ref, Note, 3.44Ref, Note
   
Galactic longitude (°) 214.6801Ref Proper motion in α (mas/yr) -0.62±0.02Ref    
Galactic latitude (°) 0.1629Ref Proper motion in δ (mas/yr) 0.77±0.02Ref    

Links

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Notes

Suspected of being a symbiotic star based on X-ray emission detected by Pavlinsky et al. (2022). An alternative explanation was considered as a high-mass X-ray binary, with a suggested association of the X-ray source with V520 Mon, a long-period variable. V520 Mon is also listed in the catalog of faint Hα emission objects by Robertson & Jordan (1989). In 2022, the object was detected in an X-ray outburst (Serino et al., 2022; Kennea et al., 2022; Shidatsu et al., 2022) and later confirmed to be a Be/X-ray binary (Zaznobin et al., 2022; Reig et al., 2022).


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Last updated: December 17, 2022