VVV-WIT-12 and Its Fashionable Nebula: A 4 yr Long-period Young Stellar Object with a Light Echo?

VVV-WIT-12 and Its Fashionable Nebula: A 4 yr Long-period Young Stellar Object with a Light Echo?

We report the serendipitous discovery of VVV-WIT-12, an unusual variable source that seems to induce variability in its surrounding nebula. The source belongs to the rare objects that we call WITs (short for What Is This?) discovered within the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey. VVV-WIT...

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Main Authors: Roberto K. Saito, Bringfried Stecklum, Dante Minniti, Philip W. Lucas, Zhen Guo, Leigh C. Smith, Luciano Fraga, Felipe Navarete, Juan Carlos Beamín, Calum Morris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Variable stars
Stellar oscillations
Galaxy stellar content
Sky surveys
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad07e6

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad07e6

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