The proper motion of HV2112: a TŻO candidate in the SMC
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Publication Date
2016-03-06Journal Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
ISSN
1745-3925
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Volume
459
Pages
L31-L35
Language
English
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Article
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Worley, C., Irwin, M., Tout, C., Żytkow, A. N., Fraser, M., & Izzard, R. (2016). The proper motion of HV2112: a TŻO candidate in the SMC. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 459 L31-L35. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw034
Abstract
The candidate Thorne–Żytkow object (TŻO), HV2112, is becoming a well-studied if enigmatic object. A key point of its candidacy as a TŻO is whether or not it resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). HV2112 has detections in a series of photometric catalogues which have resulted in contradictory estimates of its proper motion and, therefore, its membership within the SMC. This letter seeks to resolve the issue of the SMC membership of HV2112 through a reanalysis of extant photometric data. We also demonstrate the difficulties and downfalls inherent in considering a range of catalogue proper motions. We conclude that the proper motion, and associated ancillary radial velocity, positional and photometric properties, are fully consistent with HV2112 being within the SMC and thus it remains a candidate TŻO.
Keywords
techniques: photometric, proper motions, stars: individual: HV2112, galaxies: individual: SMC
Sponsorship
This work is based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme(s) 179.B-2003 and was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360. RGI thanks the STFC for funding for his Rutherford fellowship. CAT thanks Churchill College for his fellowship. This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool (A&AS, 143, 23), the Aladin sky atlas and the SIMBAD data base developed and operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. The Digitized Sky Surveys (DSS) were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under US Government grant NAG W-2166.
Funder references
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (ST/N005805/1)
European Research Council (320360)
STFC (ST/M007626/1)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (ST/L003910/1)
Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2012-541)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw034
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256781
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