Alight curve for SS Sextantis, plotted fromTESS data.[14] The 4.37 day rotation period is shown in red.
The star was first discovered to be variable in 1980 byFrenchastronomers P. Renson & J. Manfroid. They observed a 4.37day period for 25 Sex and a flucation of 0.03 magnitudes inoptical light.[15] The next year, it was confirmed to be variable and it was given the variable star designation SS Sextantis.[16] J. Manfroid and G. Mathys refined the period of 25 Sextantis to be slightly longer than previously measured; the period of SS Sextantis was measured at 4.39 days but with a larger uncertainty.[17] In 1993, D. A. Bohlender and colleagues measured themagnetic field of the star and found that it varied between 650 and 1,200gauss, although with some uncertainty about the variation.[18] Subsequent observations provide a much wider range between 1 and -1,000 gauss.[19]
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