Talk:SS Cygni
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Need to revise distance
[edit]There's now a more accurate distance to SS Cygni, it now should read 370 lightyears (+/- some number for uncertainty, dunno what). see < http://scitechdaily.com/new-distance-measurement-of-ss-cygni-resolves-major-astronomical-mystery/ >. Could somebody who works with astronomy pages do this fix? thanks Lanephil (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- Done. Cleaned up a few other things as well, and took down both flags that were on the article. Strictly speaking, there's a new position for the star that comes out of the new VLBI work, but it seems like overkill to update that. BSVulturis (talk) 21:44, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Contradictory mass data in infobox & prose
[edit]Compare the following:
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Red dwarf | |
| Mass | 0.55±0.13[1] M☉ |
| Temperature | 4,560[1] K |
| White dwarf | |
| Mass | 0.81±0.2[1] M☉ |
The inclination of the system has been calculated to be about 50 degrees, yielding masses of 0.6 solar mass (M☉) for the white dwarf primary star and 0.4 M☉ for the red dwarf secondary star.[2] – Xingyzt (talk | contribs) 00:45, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- I've updated the article. How does it look now? Lithopsian (talk) 11:46, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks. Probably a good call to use the more recent source, although AAVSO and some other summary sites still use the 1989 mass numbers. – Xingyzt (talk | contribs) 10:57, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
References
- 1 2 3 Cite error: The named reference
bitnerwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ↑ Honey, W.B.; et al. (1989). "Quiescent and Outburst Photometry of the Dwarf Nova SS Cygni". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 236 (4): 727–734. Bibcode:1989MNRAS.236..727H. doi:10.1093/mnras/236.4.727.
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