Research Article

A New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Star in Centaurus

Table 1

Some photometric parameters of the WR60a star. The near-IR photometric data were taken from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) using the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, while the V-band photometry was obtained from the Naval Observatory Merged Astronomical Dataset (NOMAD). For the derived spectral type, visual extinction, and heliocentric distance, see the text.

ID RA Dec 𝑉 𝐽 𝐻 𝐾 𝑠 Sp type 𝐴 𝑉 (mag)d (Kpc)
(J2000)(J2000)

WR60a14:06:03.61−60:27:29.5 15.35 10.84 10.12 9.39 WC5-7 3 . 8 ± 1 . 3 5 . 2 ± 0 . 8