63 Cygni
K-type bright giant/supergiant star in the constellation Cygnus
63 Cygni is a single[ 9] star in the northern constellation of Cygnus , located around 1,030 light years away from Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as an orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.56.[ 2] 63 Cyg is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −26 km/s.[ 2]
This is an evolved star showing a stellar spectrum with mixed traits between a bright giant and supergiant . It has been chosen as a spectral standard for the class of K4 Ib–IIa .[ 3]
For reasons that are not yet clear, 63 Cygni is displaying very long period (982 days) and low-amplitude (742 m/s) variations in radial velocity .[ 2] The star has expanded to 35[ 2] times the Sun's radius and is radiating 4,397[ 5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,204 K.[ 6]
References
^ a b c d e Messineo, M.; Brown, A. G. A. (2019). "A Catalog of Known Galactic K-M Stars of Class I Candidate Red Supergiants in Gaia DR2" . The Astronomical Journal . 158 (1): 20. arXiv :1905.03744 . Bibcode :2019AJ....158...20M . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/ab1cbd . S2CID 148571616 .
^ a b c d e f g Lee, B. -C.; et al. (June 2014), "Low-amplitude and long-period radial velocity variations in giants HD 3574, 63 Cygni, and HD 216946", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 566 : 6, arXiv :1405.5955 , Bibcode :2014A&A...566A.124L , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201321863 , S2CID 54177778 , A124.
^ a b Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 71 : 245, Bibcode :1989ApJS...71..245K , doi :10.1086/191373 .
^ a b c 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 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 c Earle Luck, R. (2014), "Parameters and Abundances in Luminous Stars", The Astronomical Journal , 147 (6): 137, Bibcode :2014AJ....147..137L , doi :10.1088/0004-6256/147/6/137 .
^ Lèbre, A.; et al. (May 2006), "Lithium abundances and rotational behavior for bright giant stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 450 (3): 1173–1179, Bibcode :2006A&A...450.1173L , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20053485 .
^ "63 Cyg" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-01-18 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869–879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .