28 Aquilae
Star in the constellation Aquila
This article is about A Aquilae. It is not to be confused with
Alpha Aquilae , also known as Altair.
28 Aquilae , abbreviated 28 Aql , is a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila . 28 Aquilae is its Flamsteed designation though it also bears the Bayer designation A Aquilae , and the variable star designation V1208 Aquilae . It has an apparent visual magnitude is 5.5,[ 4] making this a faint star that requires dark suburban skies to view (according to the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale ). The annual parallax shift of 9.6 mas means this star is located at a distance of approximately 340 light-years (100 parsecs ) from Earth.
The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of F0 III.[ 4] Despite consistent spectral classifications as a giant star ,[ 10] models show that it is just reaching the end of its main sequence lifetime at an age of 655 million years.[ 2]
The variability of 28 Aquilae was discovered by Michel Breger in 1969. It was revealed to be a Delta Scuti -type pulsating variable star with at least two periods of pulsation. The known periods have frequencies of 6.68 and 7.12 cycles per day.[ 11] The outer atmosphere has an effective temperature of 7,250 K,[ 4] which lies in the range of a yellow-white hued F-type star .[ 12]
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Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
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^ a b Breger, M. (March 1968), "UBV and narrow-band UVBY photometry of bright stars", Astronomical Journal , 73 : 84–85, Bibcode :1968AJ.....73...84B , doi :10.1086/110602 .
^ a b 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 .
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^ Skiff, B. A. (2014), "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2009–2016)", VizieR On-line Data Catalog , Bibcode :2014yCat....1.2023S .
^ Dall, T. H.; Frandsen, S. (May 2002), "Mode characterisation in delta Scuti stars. I. rho Pup, GN And, V1208 Aql and AV Cet", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 386 (3): 964–970, Bibcode :2002A&A...386..964D , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20020357 .
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