Astronomy:Mu Coronae Borealis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Corona Borealis
μ Coronae Borealis
Location of μ Coronae Borealis (circled)
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Corona Borealis
Right ascension  15h 35m 14.91862s[1]
Declination +39° 00′ 36.2427″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.12[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type M1.5 IIIb[3]
U−B color index +2.01[2]
B−V color index +1.64[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−13.17±0.35[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +24.780[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +8.594[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)5.9176 ± 0.0830[1] mas
Distance551 ± 8 ly
(169 ± 2 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−1.25[5]
Details
Mass3.0[6] M☉
Radius78[7] R☉
Luminosity2,512[6] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)1.5[7] cgs
Temperature3,600[6] K
Other designations
μ CrB, 6 CrB, BD+34°2773, HD 139153, HIP 76307, HR 5800[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Mu Coronae Borealis, Latinized from μ Coronae Borealis, is a solitary,[9] ruby-hued star located in the northern constellation of Corona Borealis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.12.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.92 mas, it is located roughly 551 light years from the Sun. This is an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of M1.5 IIIb.[3] It is currently on the asymptotic giant branch[10] and is a variable star of uncertain type, showing a change in brightness with an amplitude of 0.0147 magnitude and a frequency of 0.02455 cycles per day, or 40.7 days/cycle.[11] On average, it is radiating 2,512 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,600 K.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Vallenari, A. et al. (2022). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940  Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Walker, R. L. Jr. (April 1971), "UBV Photometry of 173 PZT Stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 83 (492): 177, doi:10.1086/129097, Bibcode: 1971PASP...83..177W. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 71: 245, doi:10.1086/191373, Bibcode: 1989ApJS...71..245K. 
  4. ↑ de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics 546: 14, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, A61, Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..61D. 
  5. ↑ Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Charbonnel, C.; Lagarde, N.; Jasniewicz, G.; North, P. L.; Shetrone, M.; Krugler Hollek, J.; Smith, V. V.; Smiljanic, R. et al. (2020), "Lithium in red giant stars: Constraining non-standard mixing with large surveys in the Gaia era", Astronomy and Astrophysics 633: A34, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936360, Bibcode: 2020A&A...633A..34C. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Van Belle, Gerard T.; von Braun, Kaspar; Ciardi, David R.; Pilyavsky, Genady; Buckingham, Ryan S.; Boden, Andrew F.; Clark, Catherine A.; Hartman, Zachary et al. (2021), "Direct Measurements of Giant Star Effective Temperatures and Linear Radii: Calibration against Spectral Types and V - K Color", The Astrophysical Journal 922 (2): 163, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1687, Bibcode: 2021ApJ...922..163V. 
  8. ↑ "mu. CrB". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=mu.+CrB. 
  9. ↑ 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. 
  10. ↑ Eggen, O. J. (1992), "Asymptotic giant branch stars near the sun", The Astronomical Journal 104: 275, doi:10.1086/116239, Bibcode: 1992AJ....104..275E. 
  11. ↑ Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (2002), "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 331 (1): 45–59, doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x, Bibcode: 2002MNRAS.331...45K.