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We present the results of spectroscopic and photometric observations for the B star StHα62 with an IR excess, a post-AGB candidate identified with the IR source IRAS 07171+1823. High-resolution spectroscopy has allowed the λ4330–7340 Å spectrum of the star to be identified: it contains absorption lines of an early B star and emission lines of a gaseous shell. The residual line intensities have been measured. The heliocentric radial velocities measured from absorption lines of the star and emission lines of the shell are 〈V r 〉 = +45 ± 1 and +52 ± 1 km s−1, respectively. The line-of-sight velocities of gas-dust clouds determined from the interstellar Na I lines are 12 and 33 km s−1. The He I λ5876 Å line exhibits a P Cyg profile, which is indicative of an ongoing mass loss by the star. The expansion velocity of the outer shell estimated from forbidden lines is 12–13 km s−1. Quantitative classification gives the spectral type B0.51 for the star. The parameters of the gaseous shell have been determined: N e = 3.1 × 103 cm−3 and T e ∼ 21 000 K. Over 4 years of its observations, the star showed rapid irregular light variations with the amplitudes ΔV = \(0^m .2\), ΔB = \(0^m .2\), and ΔU = \(0^m .3\) and no color-magnitude correlation. We estimate the total extinction for the star from our photometric observations as A v = \(0^m .4\). Near-IR observations have revealed dust radiation with a temperature of ∼1300 K. We estimate the distance to StHα62 to be r = 5.2 ± 1.2 kpc by assuming that the star is a low-mass (M = 0.55 ± 0.05 M ⊙) protoplanetary nebula.
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Original Russian Text © V.P. Arkhipova, V.G. Klochkova, E.L. Chentsov, V.F. Esipov, N.P. Ikonnikova, G.V. Komissarova, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 737–747.
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Arkhipova, V.P., Klochkova, V.G., Chentsov, E.L. et al. Spectroscopy and photometry of the protoplanetary nebula candidate stHα62 = IRAS 07171+1823. Astron. Lett. 32, 661–670 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773706100021
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