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The enigma of RX Puppis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Alan E. Wright  and
David A. Allen
Alan E. Wright
Affiliation:
*Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
David A. Allen
Affiliation:
†Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia

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RX Puppis is a southern symbiotic star (R.A. 08h12m 28s.2, Dec. −41°33'18“ B1950). For almost a century it has been seen to have had a violent history at optical wavelengths. In 1974 it was discovered, at 5 GHz, to be a weak radio source. Shortly after, its radio spectrum was found to be of the optically thin type, having approximately the same flux density at all frequencies between 2.7 and 22 GHz. This implied that the RX Puppis system contained dispersed, ionized gas having a linear size >1015 cm.

Type
Symbiotic Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 122: Circumstellar Matter , 1987 , pp. 479 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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