Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: The Parallax of the Cataclysmic Variable RW Triangulum

Details Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: The Parallax of the Cataclysmic Variable RW Triangulum Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: The Parallax of the Cataclysmic Variable RW Triangulum

1999-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905284v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1086/312135

RW Triangulum (RW Tri) is a 13th magnitude Nova-like Cataclysmic Variable star with an orbital period of 0.2319 days (5.56 hours). Infrared observations of RW Tri indicate that its secondary is most likely a late K-dwarf. Past analyses predicted a distance of 270 parsec, derived from a black-body fit to spectrum of the central part of the disk. Recently completed Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor interferometric observations allow us to determine the first trigonometric parallax to RW Tri. This determination puts the distance of RW Tri at 341, one of the most distant objects with a direct parallax measurement.

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