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SS Aurigae--An Anomaly

Volume 2 number 1 (1973)

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Carolyn J. Hurless

Abstract

SS Aurigae (060547) is a unique U Geminorum type star, discovered in 1906 by Silbernagel (1907) on plates taken earlier at Hamburg. The star has a visual magnitude range of 10.5 to 14.8 and an average period of 54.1 days ("GCVS", 1969), and has a peculiar spectrum (Herbig, 1960).