Astronomy:33 Piscium
33 Piscium is a binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.61.[2] The distance to this system, as determined from an annual parallax shift of 25.32±0.53 mas,[1] is about 129 light years. It is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −6.6 km/s.[4]
This system was found to have a variable radial velocity by Leah Allen and Adelaide Hobe of Lick Observatory in 1911.[10] It was identified as a single-lined spectroscopic binary, and the orbital elements were published by Canadian astronomer W. E. Harper in 1926.[3] The pair have an orbital period of 72.93 days and an eccentricity of 0.27.[6] This is a RS Canum Venaticorum variable,[3] indicating a close binary system with active star spots, and has the variable star designation BC Psc.[11]
The primary, component A, is a first-ascent red giant with a stellar classification of K0 IIIb, having chemical abundances that match a first dredge-up mixing model. Pourbaix & Boffin (2003) estimated the mass of the primary as 1.7±0.4 M☉ and the secondary as 0.76±0.11 M☉.[3] However, Feuillet et al. (2016) derived a much lower mass estimate of 0.83±0.22 M☉ for the primary.[7] At the age of roughly five[7] billion years, the star has expanded to 7 times the radius of the Sun.[8] It is radiating 24[8] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 4,736 K.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Ducati, J. R. (2002), "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Catalogue of Stellar Photometry in Johnson's 11-color system", VizieR On-line Data Catalog 2237, Bibcode: 2002yCat.2237....0D.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Barisevičius, G. et al. (2011), "Chemical Composition of the RS CVn-type Star 33 Piscium", Baltic Astronomy 20: 53–63, doi:10.1515/astro-2017-0268, Bibcode: 2011BaltA..20...53B.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harper, W. E. (October 1926), "Two K-type spectroscopic binaries", Publications of the Dominion Observatory Ottawa 3: 341–348, Bibcode: 1926PDAO....3..341H.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Feuillet, Diane K. et al. (2016), "Determining Ages of APOGEE Giants with Known Distances", The Astrophysical Journal 817 (1): 15, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/817/1/40, 40, Bibcode: 2016ApJ...817...40F.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Massarotti, Alessandro et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 HIPPARCOS Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal 135 (1): 209–231, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209, Bibcode: 2008AJ....135..209M.
- ↑ "33 Psc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=33+Psc.
- ↑ Campbell, William Wallace et al. (1911), "Sixty-eight stars whose radial velocities vary", Lick Observatory Bulletin 199: 140–154, doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/1911LicOB.6.140C, Bibcode: 1911LicOB...6..140C.
- ↑ Kazarovets, E. V.; Samus, N. N. (October 1990), "The 70th Name-List of Variable Stars", Information Bulletin on Variable Stars 3530: 1, Bibcode: 1990IBVS.3530....1K.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33 Piscium.
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