Astronomy:PV Cephei

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Short description: Star in the constellation Cepheus

Coordinates: Sky map 20h 45m 53.943s, +67° 57′ 38.66″

PV Cephei
A changing fan.jpg
PV Cep is the bright spot located at the edge of Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Alexey Romashin
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Cepheus[1]
Right ascension  20h 45m 53.943s[2]
Declination +67° 57′ 38.66″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 14.58 - 18.08[3]
Characteristics
Spectral type A5Ve[4]
Variable type T Tau[5]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: 8.228[6] mas/yr
Dec.: −1.976[6] mas/yr
Parallax (π)2.9100 ± 0.0593[6] mas
Distance1,120 ± 20 ly
(344 ± 7 pc)
Details
Mass2.6[7] M
Radius2.9[7] R
Luminosity1[8] - 100[3] L
Temperature8,150[8] K
Age<1[3] Myr
Database references
SIMBADdata

PV Cephei is variable star of Orion type located in the constellation of Cepheus at a distance of over 1600 light-years from Earth.[1]

A red band light curve for PV Cephei, adapted from Lorenzetti et al. (2011)[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "A changing fan". ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1316a/. Retrieved 23 April 2013. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cutri, Roc M.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Beichman, Charles A.; Carpenter, John M.; Chester, Thomas; Cambresy, Laurent; Evans, Tracey E. et al. (2003). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)". CDS/ADC Collection of Electronic Catalogues 2246: II/246. Bibcode2003yCat.2246....0C. http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=II/246. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kun, M.; Szegedi-Elek, E.; Moór, A.; Kóspál, Á.; Ábrahám, P.; Apai, D.; Kiss, Z. T.; Klagyivik, P. et al. (2011). "Inner disc rearrangement revealed by dramatic brightness variations in the young star PV Cep". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 413 (4): 2689. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18341.x. Bibcode2011MNRAS.413.2689K. 
  4. Watson, C. L. (2006). "The International Variable Star Index (VSX)". The Society for Astronomical Sciences 25th Annual Symposium on Telescope Science. Held May 23–25 25: 47. Bibcode2006SASS...25...47W. 
  5. Samus, N. N. et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S 1. Bibcode2009yCat....102025S. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 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.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Caratti o Garatti, A.; Garcia Lopez, R.; Weigelt, G.; Tambovtseva, L. V.; Grinin, V. P.; Wheelwright, H.; Ilee, J. D. (2013). "LBT/LUCIFER near-infrared spectroscopy of PV Cephei. An outbursting young stellar object with an asymmetric jet". Astronomy and Astrophysics 554: A66. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321418. Bibcode2013A&A...554A..66C. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Vioque, M.; Oudmaijer, R. D.; Baines, D.; Mendigutía, I.; Pérez-Martínez, R. (2018). "Gaia DR2 study of Herbig Ae/Be stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics 620: A128. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201832870. Bibcode2018A&A...620A.128V. 
  9. Lorenzetti, D.; Giannini, T.; Larionov, V. M.; Arkharov, A. A.; Antoniucci, S.; Di Paola, A.; Konstantinova, T. S.; Kopatskaya, E. N. et al. (May 2011). "Simultaneous monitoring of the photometric and polarimetric activity of the young star PV Cep in the optical/near-infrared bands". The Astrophysical Journal 732 (2): 69. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/732/2/69. Bibcode2011ApJ...732...69L. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...732...69L. Retrieved 6 December 2021.