Astronomy:66 Aquilae

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Short description: Star in the constellation Aquila
66 Aquilae
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Aquila
Right ascension  20h 13m 13.87230s[1]
Declination −01° 00′ 33.7724″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.44[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K5 III[3]
B−V color index 1.430±0.001[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−30.1±1.7[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +32.872[1] mas/yr
Dec.: –15.851[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)4.4436 ± 0.3133[1] mas
Distance730 ± 50 ly
(230 ± 20 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−1.20[2]
Details
Mass1.4[5] M
Radius55[6] R
Luminosity753[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)1.27[7] cgs
Temperature4,006[7] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.19[5] dex
Age2.3[7] Gyr
Other designations
66 Aql, BD−01°3920, GC 28068, HD 192107, HIP 99631, HR 7720, SAO 144181[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

66 Aquilae, abbreviated 66 Aql, is a fifth-magnitude star in the constellation of Aquila. 66 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.44.[2] The star shows an annual parallax shift of 4.4 mas,[1] which provides a distance estimate of around 730 light years. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −30 km/s.[4] The motion of the star over time suggests some displacement, which may indicate it is a close binary system.[9]

This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III,[3] which indicates it has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and expanded off the main sequence. The measured angular diameter of this star, after correcting for limb darkening, is 2.44±0.03 mas.[10] At its estimated distance, this yields a physical size of roughly 55 times the radius of the Sun.[6] It is radiating 753 times the Sun's luminosity[1] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,006 K,[7] giving the star an orange hue. This star was part of the obsolete constellation Anguilla.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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. (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 Khalatyan, A.; Anders, F.; Chiappini, C.; Queiroz, A. B. A.; Nepal, S.; Dal Ponte, M.; Jordi, C.; Guiglion, G. et al. (2024). "Transferring spectroscopic stellar labels to 217 million Gaia DR3 XP stars with SHBoost". Astronomy and Astrophysics 691: A98. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451427. Bibcode2024A&A...691A..98K. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Stassun, Keivan G. et al. (2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal 158 (4): 138. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. Bibcode2019AJ....158..138S. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Kordopatis, G.; Schultheis, M.; McMillan, P. J.; Palicio, P. A.; De Laverny, P.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Creevey, O.; Álvarez, M. A. et al. (2023). "Stellar ages, masses, extinctions, and orbital parameters based on spectroscopic parameters of Gaia DR3". Astronomy and Astrophysics 669: A104. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202244283. Bibcode2023A&A...669A.104K. 
  8. "66 Aql". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=66+Aql. 
  9. Mason, Brian D.; Martin, Christian; Hartkopf, William I.; Barry, Donald J.; Germain, Marvin E.; Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Worley, Charles E.; Wycoff, Gary L. et al. (1999), "Speckle Interferometry of New and Problem HIPPARCOS Binaries", The Astronomical Journal 117 (4): 1890, doi:10.1086/300823, Bibcode1999AJ....117.1890M 
  10. Richichi, A. et al. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics 431 (2): 773–777, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039, Bibcode2005A&A...431..773R