Astronomy:Epsilon Sagittae

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Short description: Star in the constellation Sagitta
Epsilon Sagittae
Sagitta IAU.svg
Red circle.svg
Location of ε Sagittae (circled)
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Sagitta
Right ascension  19h 37m 17.39324s[1]
Declination +16° 27′ 46.0871″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +5.64 to +5.67[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type G8 IIIvar[3]
U−B color index +0.83[4]
B−V color index +1.00[4]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−32.49±0.18[1] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +16.382±0.164[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +14.364±0.135[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)5.6067 ± 0.1173[1] mas
Distance580 ± 10 ly
(178 ± 4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.84±0.03[1]
Details[5]
Mass3.09 M
Radius18.37+0.65
−0.88
[1] R
Luminosity184.9±4.6[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.44 cgs
Temperature4966+124
−85
[1] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.03 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.2 km/s
Age331 Myr
Other designations
ε Sge, 4 Sge, BD+16°3918, HD 185194, HIP 96516, HR 7463, WDS J19373+1628A[6]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Epsilon Sagittae (ε Sagittae) is a solitary,[7] yellow-hued star in the northern constellation of Sagitta. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.64 to +5.67,[2] it is faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night. It is a variable star with a small amplitude of 0.03 magnitudes. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.60 mas as seen from Earth,[8] it is located roughly 580 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.1 due to interstellar dust.[3]

This is an evolved, G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 IIIvar,[3] where the 'var' suffix indicates a variable spectral feature. The star is about 331 million years old with three times the mass of the Sun.[5] It is radiating 185 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,966 K.[1]

Epsilon Sagittae is an optical binary, with a companion of magnitude 8.35 at an angular separation of 87.3 arc seconds along a position angle of 82°, as of 2013.[9] The companion is actually a more distant giant star approximately 7,000 light-years from Earth, with a luminosity 1,800 times that of the Sun and also designated HD 232029.[10]

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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. 2.0 2.1 Details for NSV 12213, The International Variable Star Index, 17 December 2005, https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=50837, retrieved 14 September 2018 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Takeda, Yoichi et al. (August 2008), "Stellar Parameters and Elemental Abundances of Late-G Giants", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 60 (4): 781–802, doi:10.1093/pasj/60.4.781, Bibcode2008PASJ...60..781T. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Argue, A. N. (1966), "UBV photometry of 550 F, G and K type stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 133 (4): 475–493, doi:10.1093/mnras/133.4.475, Bibcode1966MNRAS.133..475A. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Takeda, Yoichi; Tajitsu, Akito (2014), "Spectroscopic study on the beryllium abundances of red giant stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 66 (5): 91, doi:10.1093/pasj/psu066, Bibcode2014PASJ...66...91T. 
  6. "eps Sge". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=eps+Sge. 
  7. 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, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E. 
  8. van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode2007A&A...474..653V. 
  9. Mason, B. D. et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal 122 (6): 3466, doi:10.1086/323920, Bibcode2001AJ....122.3466M. 
  10. 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.