The Bright Symbiotic Mira EF Aquilae

Abstract

An incidental spectrum of the poorly studied long period variable EF Aquilae shows [O III] emission indicative of a symbiotic star. Strong GALEX detections in the UV reinforce this classification, providing overt evidence for the presence of the hot subluminous companion. Recent compilations of the photometric behavior strongly suggest that the cool component is a Mira variable. Thus EF Aql appears to be a member of the rare symbiotic Mira subgroup.

Accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 128 (2016)

References in corpus (2)

• The Catalina Surveys Periodic Variable Star Catalog
• NSV 11749: Symbiotic Nova, Not a Born-Again Red Giant

Cited by in corpus (6)

• A census of symbiotic stars in the 2MASS, WISE and Gaia surveys
• The UV-bright Quasar Survey (UVQS): DR1
• Discovery of optical flickering from the symbiotic star EF Aquilae
• Discovery of the most luminous quasar of the last 9 Gyr
• Discovery of a Rare Late-Type, Low-Mass Wolf-Rayet Star in the LMC
• Optical spectroscopy and X-ray observations of the D-type symbiotic star EF Aql