Astronomy:4 Aquilae

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Short description: Star in the constellation Aquila
4 Aquilae
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Aquila
Right ascension  18h 44m 49.93813s[1]
Declination +02° 03′ 36.1381″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.02[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B9 V[3]
B−V color index −0.055±0.016[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−13.0±4.2[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +9.347[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −14.719[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)6.7299 ± 0.2433[1] mas
Distance480 ± 20 ly
(149 ± 5 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.75[2]
Details
Mass3.60±0.06[5] M
Radius3.00[6] R
Luminosity294+20.4
−20.9
[5] L
Surface gravity (log g)3.46±0.10[7] cgs
Temperature10,965+50
−51
[5] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)259[5] km/s
Other designations
4 Aql, BD+01° 3766, GC 25652, HD 173370, HIP 91975, HR 7040, SAO 123879[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

4 Aquilae, abbreviated 4 Aql, is a single,[9] white-hued star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 4 Aquilae is the Flamsteed designation. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.02,[2] making it a faint star visible to the naked eye. The distance to 4 Aql can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 6.7 mas,[1] yielding an estimated range of around 480 light years. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −13 km/s.[4]

This is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9 V.[3] It was classed as a Be star by Arne Sletteback in 1982, indicating it has ionized circumstellar gas.[6] The star is spinning rapidly, showing a projected rotational velocity of 259 km/s,[5] and is being viewed almost equator-on.[7] It has 3.6[5] times the mass of the Sun and 3[6] times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 294[5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,965 K.[5]

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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars", Michigan Spectral Survey 5, Bibcode1999MSS...C05....0H. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gontcharov, G. A. (November 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 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Zorec, J.; Royer, F. (2012), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. IV. Evolution of rotational velocities", Astronomy & Astrophysics 537: A120, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117691, Bibcode2012A&A...537A.120Z. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Silaj, J. et al. (November 2014), "The Hα Profiles of Be Shell Stars", The Astrophysical Journal 795 (1): 12, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/82, 82, Bibcode2014ApJ...795...82S. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Lefever, K. et al. (June 2010), "Spectroscopic determination of the fundamental parameters of 66 B-type stars in the field-of-view of the CoRoT satellite", Astronomy and Astrophysics 515: A74, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200911956, Bibcode2010A&A...515A..74L. 
  8. "4 Aql". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=4+Aql. 
  9. Chini, R. et al. (2012), "A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity of high-mass stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 424 (3): 1925–1929, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21317.x, Bibcode2012MNRAS.424.1925C.