26 Aquarii is a single[6] star located approximately 960[1] light years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius. 26 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation.[5] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.66.[2] This object is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +8 km/s.[2]
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Aquarius |
| Right ascension | 21h 42m 10.11292s[1] |
| Declination | +01° 17′ 06.9019″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.66[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | K2(III)[3] |
| B−V color index | 1.446±0.008[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | +8.15±0.19[2] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −4.298[1] mas/yr Dec.: −7.530[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 3.4044 ± 0.1310 mas[1] |
| Distance | 960 ± 40 ly (290 ± 10 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | −1.98[2] |
| Details | |
| Radius | 54.5+3.5 −3.00[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 842±38[1] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 1.2[4] cgs |
| Temperature | 4,210+121 −129[1] K |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 3.2[4] km/s |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Houk and Swift (1999) listed a stellar classification of K2(III)[3] for 26 Aquarii, corresponding to an evolved K-type giant of uncertain luminosity class. Bartkevicius and Lazauskaite (1997) found spectral traits of MD-Ba?-K3 II–III, K2 Ia, suggesting some type of giant K-type star with a suspected metal deficiency (MD) of barium.[7] It has 54.5 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 842 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,210 K.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ^ a b c d e f Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
- ^ a b Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars", Michigan Spectral Survey, 5, Bibcode:1999MSS...C05....0H.
- ^ a b Rebull, Luisa M.; et al. (October 2015), "On Infrared Excesses Associated with Li-rich K Giants", The Astronomical Journal, 150 (4): 45, arXiv:1507.00708, Bibcode:2015AJ....150..123R, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/4/123, S2CID 46595131, 123.
- ^ a b "26 Aqr". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 389 (2): 869, arXiv:0806.2878, Bibcode:2008MNRAS.389..869E, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, S2CID 14878976.
- ^ Bartkevicius, A.; Lazauskaite, R. (December 1997), "Classification of Population II Stars in the Vilnius Photometric System. II. Results", Baltic Astronomy, 6 (4): 499–572, Bibcode:1997BaltA...6..499B, doi:10.1515/astro-1997-0402.