Radio emission from a normal HD26676 star

Abstract

IN the field of an observation of the cluster Abell 478 made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope¹ at 21 cm, we have discovered and report here a weak radio source coincident with the 6.2-mag B8Vn star² HD26676. The source positions derived from both the 21-cm observation, and measurements made later at 6 cm, agree within the errors with the AGK3 position of the star (Table 1). The 21-cm data were obtained during a single 8-h observation, while at 6 cm three measurements, each lasting for 10 h, were made over a period of 6 weeks. There is no significant indication of variability from the three flux densities derived at 6 cm (Table 2). The global 6-cm flux density, as well as the position in Table 1, were obtained by combining the three observations in a single map.