SS Aurigae--An Anomaly
Volume 2 number 1 (1973)
- 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).