Astronomy:60 Serpentis
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Serpens[1] |
| Right ascension | 18h 29m 40.97948s[2] |
| Declination | −01° 59′ 07.1058″[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.38[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | red clump[3] |
| Spectral type | K0 III[4] |
| B−V color index | 0.961±0.004[1] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | +28.36±0.34[5] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −85.35[2] mas/yr Dec.: −34.31[2] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 25.16 ± 0.31[2] mas |
| Distance | 130 ± 2 ly (39.7 ± 0.5 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 1.25±0.07[6] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.81±0.49[6] M☉ |
| Radius | 8[5] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 35[5] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 2.92±0.11[6] cgs |
| Temperature | 5,059±92[6] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.08[5] dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 3.9[5] km/s |
| Age | 1.26+0.19 −0.16[6] Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
60 Serpentis, also known as c Serpentis, is a single,[8] orange-hued star in Serpens Cauda, the eastern section of the constellation Serpens. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.38.[1] The distance to this star, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 25.16±0.31 mas,[2] is approximately 130 light years. It is moving further from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of +28 km/s,[5] having approached as close as 107 ly (32.7 pc) some 1.9 million years ago.[1]
This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III,[4] having used up its core hydrogen and expanded. At the age of around 1.26 billion years, it currently belongs to the so-called "red clump", which indicates it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core.[9] The star has an estimated 1.8 times the mass of the Sun[6] and 8 times the Sun's radius.[5] It is radiating 35 times the Sun's luminosity[5] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of about 5,059 K.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode: 2007A&A...474..653V.
- ↑ Gontcharov, G. A. (2009). "Red giant clump in the Tycho-2 catalogue". Astronomy Letters 34 (11): 785–796. doi:10.1134/S1063773708110078. Bibcode: 2008AstL...34..785G.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars", Michigan Spectral Survey 5, Bibcode: 1999MSS...C05....0H.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Massarotti, Alessandro et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 HIPPARCOS Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal 135 (1): 209–231, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209, Bibcode: 2008AJ....135..209M.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Feuillet, Diane K. et al. (2016), "Determining Ages of APOGEE Giants with Known Distances", The Astrophysical Journal 817 (1): 40, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/40, Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817...40F.
- ↑ "60 Ser". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=60+Ser.
- ↑ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 389 (2): 869–879, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode: 2008MNRAS.389..869E.
- ↑ Alves, David R. (August 2000), "K-Band Calibration of the Red Clump Luminosity", The Astrophysical Journal 539 (2): 732–741, doi:10.1086/309278, Bibcode: 2000ApJ...539..732A.
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