Short description: Star in the constellation Aries
Xi Arietis, Latinized from ξ Arietis, is the Bayer designation for a binary star[7] system in the northern constellation of Aries. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.46,[2] and so is dimly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.74±0.29 mas as seen from Earth, it is 872 ± 68 light-years (267 ± 21 parsecs) distant from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.24 due to interstellar dust.[4]
This is a double-lined spectroscopic binary.[7] The spectrum matches a stellar classification of B7 IV,[3] which would indicate a subgiant star that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and is in the process of evolving into a giant star. Xi Arietis was once a designation for Psi Ceti (ψ Cet, ψ Ceti).[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode: 2007A&A...474..653V.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Crawford, D. L. et al. (1971), "Four-color, H-beta, and UBV photometry for bright B-type stars in the northern hemisphere", The Astronomical Journal 76: 1058, doi:10.1086/111220, Bibcode: 1971AJ.....76.1058C.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lesh, Janet Rountree (December 1968), "The Kinematics of the Gould Belt: an Expanding Group?", Astrophysical Journal Supplement 17: 371, doi:10.1086/190179, Bibcode: 1968ApJS...17..371L.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2012), "Spatial distribution and kinematics of OB stars", Astronomy Letters 38 (11): 694–706, doi:10.1134/S1063773712110035, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..694G.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Huang, Wenjin et al. (October 2010), "A Stellar Rotation Census of B Stars: From ZAMS to TAMS", The Astrophysical Journal 722 (1): 605–619, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/605, Bibcode: 2010ApJ...722..605H.
- ↑ "ksi Ari". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=ksi+Ari.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chini, R. et al. (2012), "A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity of high-mass stars", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 424 (3): 1925, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21317.x, Bibcode: 2012MNRAS.424.1925C.
- ↑ Ridpath, Ian, "Bayer's Uranometria and Bayer letters", Star Tales, http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/bayer.htm.
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