Astronomy:A-type main-sequence star

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An artist's impression of Sirius A and Sirius B, a binary star system. Sirius A, an A-type main-sequence star, is the larger of the two.

An A-type main-sequence star (AV) or A dwarf star is a main-sequence (hydrogen burning) star of spectral type A and luminosity class V (five). These stars have spectra defined by strong hydrogen Balmer absorption lines.[1] They measure between 1.4 and 2.1 solar masses (M☉) and have surface temperatures between 7,600 and 10,000 K. Bright and nearby examples are Altair (A7), Sirius A (A1), and Vega (A0). A-type stars do not have convective zones and thus are not expected to harbor magnetic dynamos. As a consequence, because they do not have strong stellar winds, they lack a means to generate X-ray emissions.

Spectral standard stars

Properties of typical A-type main-sequence stars[2][3][4][5][6]
Spectral
type 		Mass (M☉) Radius (R☉) Luminosity (L☉) Effective
temperature
(K) 		Color
index
(B − V)
A0V 2.18 2.193 38.02 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|9,700 0.00
A1V 2.05 2.136 30.90 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|9,300 0.04
A2V 1.98 2.117 23.99 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|8,800 0.07
A3V 1.93 1.861 16.98 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|8,600 0.10
A4V 1.88 1.794 13.49 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|8,250 0.14
A5V 1.86 1.785 12.30 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|8,100 0.16
A6V 1.83 1.775 11.22 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|7,910 0.19
A7V 1.81 1.750 10.00 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|7,760 0.21
A8V 1.77 1.747 9.12 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|7,590 0.25
A9V 1.75 1.747 8.32 style="background-color:#Template:Color temperature"|7,400 0.27

The revised Yerkes Atlas system[7] listed a dense grid of A-type dwarf spectral standard stars, but not all of these have survived to this day as standards. The "anchor points" and "dagger standards" of the MK spectral classification system among the A-type main-sequence dwarf stars, i.e. those standard stars that have remained unchanged over years and can be considered to define the system, are Vega (A0 V), Gamma Ursae Majoris (A0 V), and Fomalhaut (A3 V).[8][9] The seminal review of MK classification by Morgan & Keenan (1973)[9] didn't provide any dagger standards between types A3 V and F2 V. HD 23886 was suggested as an A5 V standard in 1978.[10]

Richard Gray & Robert Garrison provided the most recent contributions to the A dwarf spectral sequence in a pair of papers in 1987[11] and 1989.[12] They list an assortment of fast- and slow-rotating A-type dwarf spectral standards, including HD 45320 (A1 V), HD 88955 (A2 V), 2 Hydri (A7 V), 21 Leonis Minoris (A7 V), and 44 Ceti (A9 V). Besides the MK standards provided in Morgan's papers and the Gray & Garrison papers, one also occasionally sees Delta Leonis (A4 V) listed as a standard. There are no published A6 V and A8 V standard stars.

The Morgan-Keenan spectral classification


Planets

A-type stars are young (typically few hundred million years old) and many emit infrared (IR) radiation beyond what would be expected from the star alone. This IR excess is attributable to dust emission from a debris disk where planets form.[13] Surveys indicate massive planets commonly form around A-type stars although these planets are difficult to detect using the Doppler spectroscopy method. This is because A-type stars typically rotate very quickly, which makes it difficult to measure the small Doppler shifts induced by orbiting planets since the spectral lines are very broad.[14] However, this type of massive star eventually evolves into a cooler red giant which rotates more slowly and thus can be measured using the radial velocity method.[14] As of early 2011 about 30 Jupiter class planets have been found around evolved K-giant stars including Pollux, Gamma Cephei and Iota Draconis. Doppler surveys around a wide variety of stars indicate about 1 in 6 stars having twice the mass of the Sun are orbited by one or more Jupiter-sized planets, compared to about 1 in 16 for Sun-like stars. [15]

A-type star systems known to feature planets include HD 15082, Beta Pictoris, HR 8799 and HD 95086.[16]

Examples

Within 40 light years:

Name Spectral
type 		Constellation vis Mag Mass
(M☉) 		Radius
(R☉) 		Luminosity
(L☉) 		Distance
(ly)
Sirius A0mA1 Va Canis Major −1.47 2.063 1.711 25.4 8.60 ± 0.04
Altair A7 V Aquila 0.76 1.79 1.63–2.03 10.6 16.73
Vega A0 Va Lyra 0.026 2.135 2.362 × 2.818 40.12 25.04
Fomalhaut A3 V Piscis Austrinus 1.17 1.91 1.84 16 25.1
Denebola A3 V Leo 2.14 1.78 1.73 15 35.8
Delta Capricorni A5 IV Capricornus 2.83 2.0 1.91 11 38.6

Delta Capricorni is likely a subgiant or giant star, and Altair is a disputed subgiant. In addition, Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Stellar Spectral Types". http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/starlog/staspe.html. 
  2. ↑ Pecaut, Mark J.; Mamajek, Eric E. (1 September 2013). "Intrinsic Colors, Temperatures, and Bolometric Corrections of Pre-main-sequence Stars". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 208 (1): 9. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/208/1/9. ISSN 0067-0049. Bibcode: 2013ApJS..208....9P. 
  3. ↑ Mamajek, Eric (2 March 2021). "A Modern Mean Dwarf Stellar Color and Effective Temperature Sequence". University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy. http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/EEM_dwarf_UBVIJHK_colors_Teff.txt. 
  4. ↑ Dale A. Ostlie; Bradley W. Carroll (2007). An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics. Pearson Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-8053-0348-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=BNpFAQAAIAAJ. 
  5. ↑ Habets, G. M. H. J.; Heintze, J. R. W. (1981). "Empirical bolometric corrections for the main-sequence". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 46: 193. Bibcode: 1981A&AS...46..193H. Tables VII, VIII
  6. ↑ Schröder, C.; Schmitt, J. H. M. M. (November 2007). "X-ray emission from A-type stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics 475 (2): 677–684. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20077429. Bibcode: 2007A&A...475..677S. 
  7. ↑ Johnson, H. L.; Morgan, W. W. (1953). "Fundamental stellar photometry for standards of spectral type on the Revised System of the Yerkes Spectral Atlas". The Astrophysical Journal 117: 313. doi:10.1086/145697. Bibcode: 1953ApJ...117..313J. 
  8. ↑ "MK ANCHOR POINTS". http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~garrison/mkstds.html. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Morgan, W. W.; Keenan, P. C. (1973). "Spectral Classification". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 11: 29. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.11.090173.000333. Bibcode: 1973ARA&A..11...29M. 
  10. ↑ Morgan, W. W.; Abt, Helmut A.; Tapscott, J. W. (1978). Revised MK Spectral Atlas for stars earlier than the sun. Bibcode: 1978rmsa.book.....M. 
  11. ↑ Gray, R. O.; Garrison, R. F. (1987). "The Early A-Type Stars: Refined MK Classification, Confrontation with Stroemgren Photometry, and the Effects of Rotation". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 65: 581. doi:10.1086/191237. Bibcode: 1987ApJS...65..581G. 
  12. ↑ Gray, R. O.; Garrison, R. F. (1989). "The Late A-Type Stars: Refined MK Classification, Confrontation with Stroemgren Photometry, and the Effects of Rotation". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 70: 623. doi:10.1086/191349. Bibcode: 1989ApJS...70..623G. 
  13. ↑ Song, Inseok et al. (2002). "M-Type Vega-like Stars". The Astronomical Journal 124 (1): 514–518. doi:10.1086/341164. Bibcode: 2002AJ....124..514S. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Johnson, John Asher; Fischer, Debra A.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Wright, Jason T.; Driscoll, Peter; Butler, R. Paul; Hekker, Saskia; Reffert, Sabine et al. (2007). "Retired a Stars and Their Companions: Exoplanets Orbiting Three Intermediate‐Mass Subgiants". The Astrophysical Journal 665: 785–793. doi:10.1086/519677. 
  15. ↑ Johnson, J. A. (2011). "The Stars that Host Planets". Sky & Telescope (April): 22–27. 
  16. ↑ Smalley, J. B. (2014). "Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey". Astronomy and Astrophysics (April): 20. 



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