Astronomy:23 Cygni

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Short description: Star in the constellation Cygnus
23 Cygni
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Cygnus
Right ascension  19h 53m 17.37873s[1]
Declination +57° 31′ 24.4810″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.14[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B5 V[3]
U−B color index +0.76[2]
B−V color index −0.13[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−31.6±1.6[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +5.768[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +11.483[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)5.9155 ± 0.1728[1] mas
Distance550 ± 20 ly
(169 ± 5 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−1.30[5]
Details[2]
Mass4.7+0.64
−0.53
[6] M
Radius4.30±0.45 R
Luminosity611.53[5] L
Surface gravity (log g)3.82±0.08 cgs
Temperature14,893±214 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.17±0.16 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)145 km/s
Age26+32
−19
[6] Myr
Other designations
23 Cyg, BD+57°2084, HD 188665, HIP 97870, HR 7608, SAO 32085, WDS J19533+5731[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata

23 Cygni is a single,[2] blue-white hued star in the northern constellation Cygnus. It is a faint star, visible to the naked eye, with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.14.[2] The distance to this star, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 5.9 mas,[1] is about 550 light years. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −32 km/s,[4] and is expected to come as near as 166 light-years in around 5.6 million years.[2] At that distance, the current star would be of magnitude 2.24.[8]

This is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star of spectral type B5V, a star that is generating energy through hydrogen fusion at its core. It is roughly 26[2] million years old with 4.7[6] times the mass of the Sun and 4.3 times the Sun's radius.[2] The star has a high rate of spin, having a projected rotational velocity of 145 km/s.[2] It is radiating 612[5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 14,893 K.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Fitzpatrick, E. L.; Massa, D. (March 2005), "Determining the Physical Properties of the B Stars. II. Calibration of Synthetic Photometry", The Astronomical Journal 129 (3): 1642–1662, doi:10.1086/427855, Bibcode2005AJ....129.1642F. 
  3. Hill, P. W.; Lynas-Gray, A. E. (September 1977), "UBV photometry and MK spectral classification of northern early-type stars at intermediate galactic latitudes.", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 180 (4): 691–702, doi:10.1093/mnras/180.4.691, Bibcode1977MNRAS.180..691H. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 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. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gullikson, Kevin et al. (August 2016), "The Close Companion Mass-ratio Distribution of Intermediate-mass Stars", The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 13, doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/40, 40, Bibcode2016AJ....152...40G. 
  7. "23 Cyg". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=23+Cyg. 
  8. At a distance (D) of 50.99 and an absolute magnitude (M) of −1.30, ignoring extinction (A), the apparent magnitude (m) would be:
    m = M + A + 5·log D + 5 ≈ −1.30 + 5·log 50.99 − 5 = 2.24
    Ref.: Dopita, Michael A.; Sutherland, Ralph S. (2004), Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe, Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 296, ISBN 3540433627, https://books.google.com/books?id=kWzLAlkBqAAC&pg=PA296