Discovery of a Hot Symbiotic Star in the Cold Antarctic Sky: Symbiotics Are Outliers in SkyMapper uvgriz Photometry

• Published in: Research Notes of the AAS
• Main Authors: Lucy, Adrian B., Sokoloski, J. L., Nuñez, Natalia Edith, Wolf, C., Bohlsen, T., Luna, Gerardo Juan Manuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP
• Subjects: SYMBIOTIC; SKYMAPPER; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; San Juan; Argentina; Edith; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/80669

Using near-ultraviolet flux excess and variability from the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey11 as novel diagnostics to search for symbiotic stars?cool giants accreting onto compact objects, typically white dwarfs (WDs), we report that Hen 3-1768 (≡ASAS J195948?8252.7) is a symbiotic star. It may be an...