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, Bibcode1971PASP...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, Bibcode1989ApJS...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, Bibcode2012A&A...546A..61D. 
  5. Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...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, Bibcode2020A&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, Bibcode2021ApJ...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, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E. 
  10. Eggen, O. J. (1992), "Asymptotic giant branch stars near the sun", The Astronomical Journal 104: 275, doi:10.1086/116239, Bibcode1992AJ....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, Bibcode2002MNRAS.331...45K.