Astronomy:Psi2 Draconis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Draco


Psi2 Draconis
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Draco
Right ascension  17h 55m 11.15296s[1]
Declination +72° 00′ 18.4470″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.45[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type F2 III+[3] or F3 II-III[4]
U−B color index +0.15[2]
B−V color index +0.30[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−2.0[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +8.545[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −2.133[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)3.4888 ± 0.0832[1] mas
Distance930 ± 20 ly
(287 ± 7 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−2.12±0.14[6]
Details[5]
Mass2.02 M
Radius14.70+0.64
−0.34
[1] R
Luminosity448±13[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.32 cgs
Temperature6925+83
−152
[1] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−1.29 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)50[7] km/s
Age800 Myr
Other designations
ψ2 Dra, 34 Dra, BD+72° 818, FK5 3429, HD 164613, HIP 87728, HR 6725, SAO 8961[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Psi2 Draconis is a solitary[9] giant star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco, also designated 34 Draconis. It lies just over a degree east of the brighter Psi1 Draconis.[10] Psi2 Draconis has a yellow-white hue and is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.45.[2] It is located at a distance of 940 light-years (287 parsecs) from the Sun based on parallax, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.[5]

According to R. O. Gray and associates (2001), the stellar classification of Psi2 Draconis is F2III+;[3] a star that has used up its core hydrogen, cooled, and expanded away from the main sequence. A. P. Cowley and W. P. Bidelman (1979) found a similar class of F3 II-III, with the comment that the spectrum showed "many weak lines".[4] Based on the abundance of iron, the metallicity of this star is much lower than in the Sun. It is about 800[5] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 50 km/s.[7] The star has double[5] the mass of the Sun but has expanded to 15[1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 448[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,925 K.[1]

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 2.2 2.3 Oja, T. (April 1983), "UBV photometry of FK4 and FK4 supplement stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 52: 1311–34, Bibcode1983A&AS...52..131O. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gray, R. O. et al. (April 2001), "The Physical Basis of Luminosity Classification in the Late A-, F-, and Early G-Type Stars. I. Precise Spectral Types for 372 Stars", The Astronomical Journal 121 (4): 2148–2158, doi:10.1086/319956, Bibcode2001AJ....121.2148G. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "MK spectral types for some F and G stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 91: 83–86, February 1979, doi:10.1086/130446, Bibcode1979PASP...91...83C. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Casagrande, L. et al. (2011), "New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc(s). Improved astrophysical parameters for the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey", Astronomy & Astrophysics 530 (A138): 21, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201016276, Bibcode2011A&A...530A.138C. 
  6. Holmberg, J. et al. (July 2009), "The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the solar neighbourhood. III. Improved distances, ages, and kinematics", Astronomy and Astrophysics 501 (3): 941–947, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811191, Bibcode2009A&A...501..941H. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danziger, I. J.; Faber, S. M. (May 1972), "Rotation of evolving A and F stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics 18: 428, Bibcode1972A&A....18..428D. 
  8. "psi02 Dra -- Star", SIMBAD Astronomical Database (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg), http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=psi02+Dra, retrieved 2017-05-29. 
  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. Sinnott, Roger W.; Perryman, Michael A. C. (1997), Millennium Star Atlas, 3, Sky Publishing Corporation and the European Space Agency, p. 1054, ISBN 0-933346-84-0.