Astronomy:20 Aquilae

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Short description: Star in the constellation Aquila
20 Aquilae
20AqlLightCurve.png
A light curve for 20 Aquilae, plotted from Hipparcos data[1]
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Aquila
Right ascension  19h 12m 40.71201s[2]
Declination −07° 56′ 22.2650″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.362[3]
Characteristics
Spectral type B3 V,[4] B3 IV,[5] or B2/3 II[6]
B−V color index +0.088[3]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−23.0±0.7[7] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +14.040[2] mas/yr
Dec.: –6.814[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)3.5374 ± 0.1720[2] mas
Distance920 ± 40 ly
(280 ± 10 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−2.02[8]
Details
Mass8.6±0.2[9] M
Luminosity (bolometric)7,284[3] L
Temperature18,700[3] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)133±6[4] km/s
Age27.9±4.1[9] Myr
Other designations
20 Aql, NSV 11808, BD−08° 4887, GC 26461, HD 179406, HIP 94385, HR 7279, SAO 143134[10]
Database references
SIMBADdata

20 Aquilae, abbreviated 20 Aql, is an irregular variable[11] star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 20 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It ranges in magnitude from a peak of 5.33 down to 5.36, which is bright enough for the star to be visible to the naked eye.[12] The estimated distance to this star is around 920 light years, based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.5 mas.[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s.[7]

There has been some disagreement over the stellar classification of this star. Buscombe (1962) listed a class of B3 IV,[5] which suggests a B-type subgiant star that has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and is expanding off the main sequence. Lesh (1968)[13] and Braganca et al. (2012)[4] matched a B-type main sequence star with a class of B3 V. However, Houk and Swift (1999) found a class of B2/3 II,[6] indicating this is an evolved bright giant.

The star is about 28[9] million years old with a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 133 km/s.[4] It has 8.6[9] times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 7,284 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 18,700 K.[3]

References

  1. "Hipparcos Tools Interactive Data Access". ESA. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hipparcos/interactive-data-access. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Hohle, M. M. et al. (April 2010), "Masses and luminosities of O- and B-type stars and red supergiants", Astronomische Nachrichten 331 (4): 349, doi:10.1002/asna.200911355, Bibcode2010AN....331..349H. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Bragança, G. A. et al. (November 2012), "Projected Rotational Velocities and Stellar Characterization of 350 B Stars in the Nearby Galactic Disk", The Astronomical Journal 144 (5): 10, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/130, 130, Bibcode2012AJ....144..130B. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Buscombe, W. (1962), "Spectral classification of Southern fundamental stars", Mount Stromlo Observatory Mimeogram 4: 1, Bibcode1962MtSOM...4....1B. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars", Michigan Spectral Survey 5, Bibcode1999MSS...C05....0H. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gontcharov, G. A. (2006), "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system", Astronomy Letters 32 (11): 759–771, doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065, Bibcode2006AstL...32..759G. 
  8. Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Tetzlaff, N. et al. (January 2011), "A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 410 (1): 190–200, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17434.x, Bibcode2011MNRAS.410..190T. 
  10. "20 Aql". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=20+Aql. 
  11. Lefèvre, L.; Marchenko, S. V.; Moffat, A. F. J.; Acker, A. (2009), "A systematic study of variability among OB-stars based on HIPPARCOS photometry", Astronomy and Astrophysics 507 (2): 1141–1201, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912304, ISSN 0004-6361, Bibcode2009A&A...507.1141L. 
  12. Samus, N. N. et al. (2017), "General Catalogue of Variable Stars", Astronomy Reports, GCVS 5.1 61 (1): 80–88, doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085, Bibcode2017ARep...61...80S. 
  13. Lesh, Janet Rountree (December 1968), "The Kinematics of the Gould Belt: an Expanding Group?", Astrophysical Journal Supplement 17: 371, doi:10.1086/190179, Bibcode1968ApJS...17..371L.