Astronomy:60 Aquarii
Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Aquarius |
Right ascension | 22h 34m 02.91361s[1] |
Declination | –01° 34′ 27.3638″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.89[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | G6 III[3] |
U−B color index | +0.73[2] |
B−V color index | +1.00[2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | –8[4] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: +40.30[5] mas/yr Dec.: –35.92[5] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 8.6909 ± 0.1113[1] mas |
Distance | 375 ± 5 ly (115 ± 1 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | +0.14[3] |
Details | |
Mass | 2.77[3] M☉ |
Radius | 11.13+0.26 −0.16[1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 64.7±1.0[1] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 2.88[6] cgs |
Temperature | 4,820[6] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | –0.24[6] dex |
Age | 437[3] Myr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
60 Aquarii is a star located 375 light years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. 60 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.89.[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of –8 km/s.[4]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G6 III,[3] most likely on the horizontal branch.[8] It is 437[3] million years old with 2.77[3] times the mass of the Sun. Having exhausted the hydrogen at its core, this star has evolved away from the main sequence and expanded to 11[1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 65[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,820 K.[6]
A magnitude 11.54 companion star is located at an angular separation of 100.90″ along a position angle of 299°, as of 2013.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 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. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Johnson, H. L. et al. (1966). "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars". Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 4 (99): 99. Bibcode: 1966CoLPL...4...99J.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Takeda, Yoichi et al. (August 2008), "Stellar Parameters and Elemental Abundances of Late-G Giants", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 60 (4): 781–802, doi:10.1093/pasj/60.4.781, Bibcode: 2008PASJ...60..781T.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilson, Ralph Elmer (1953), "General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities", Carnegie Institute Washington D.C. Publication (Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington), Bibcode: 1953GCRV..C......0W.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 van Leeuwen, F. (November 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
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 McWilliam, Andrew (December 1990), "High-resolution spectroscopic survey of 671 GK giants", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 74: 1075–1128, doi:10.1086/191527, Bibcode: 1990ApJS...74.1075M.
- ↑ "60 Aqr -- Star in double system", SIMBAD (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg), http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=60+Aquarii, retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ↑ Stock, Stephan et al. (August 2018), "Precise radial velocities of giant stars. X. Bayesian stellar parameters and evolutionary stages for 372 giant stars from the Lick planet search", Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: 15, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833111, A33, Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A..33S.
- ↑ Mason, B. D. et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal 122 (6): 3466, doi:10.1086/323920, Bibcode: 2001AJ....122.3466M
External links
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60 Aquarii.
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