WX Pyxidis

WX Pyxidis is a cataclysmic variable star system in the constellation Pyxis. Its X-ray emissions were discovered in 1984, after which a visual correlate was searched for. It is classed as an intermediate polar system, composed of a white dwarf and red dwarf with a calculated spectral type of M2V in close orbit around each other and the spin of the degenerate star is such that it does not present the same face to the other star.[2] The degenerate star spins on its axis every 25 minutes.[3] The stars are estimated to take 5.3 hours to orbit each other and the system is 1530 parsecs distant.[2]

WX Pyxidis
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Pyxis
Right ascension   08h 33m 05.77s[1]
Declination −22° 48′ 31.9″[1]

References
  1. "V* WX Pyx". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. Joshi, V.H.; Ashok, N.M.; Banerjee, D.P.K. (2011). "A study of the near-infrared modulation at spin and orbital periods in the intermediate polar WX Pyx". Bulletin of the Astromical Society of India. 39: 259–75. arXiv:1105.3619. Bibcode:2011BASI...39..259J.
  3. Schlegel, E. M. (2005). "A serendipitous XMM-Newton observation of the intermediate polar WX Pyx". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 433 (2): 635–39. arXiv:astro-ph/0412431. Bibcode:2005A&A...433..635S. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042314.
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