Two New Star Systems - First of Their Type Discovered

[bizarro (Greg)]

I come across this interesting article. It details the findings of two pairs of yellow supergiant binaries that could explain a particular type of Supernova (involving yellow supergiants) that had astronomers a bit puzzled.

I just need to track down some more detail about the pair found in the SMC. That could be an interesting target.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/superyellow.htm

Cheers,
Greg

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Thanks Looking forward seeing what you can find.

[bizarro (Greg)]

Hi Geoff,

I think this is it. I looked it up in the NASA Astronomy Abstract Service and then looked at the SIMBAD objects listed in the article. This seems to be the likely star(s).

TYC 9142-826-1 -- Eclipsing binary

RA and Dec: 01 29 17.26 -72 43 20.2

Cheers,
Greg