Variable star in the constellation Pictor
Delta Pictoris , Latinized from δ Pictoris, is a binary star system in the southern constellation Pictor . It is visible to the naked with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.72.[ 2] The system is located at a distance of approximately 1,300 light years from the Sun based on parallax measurements,[ 1] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of ~31 km/s.[ 9] It is a runaway star system that is generating a bow shock as it moves through the interstellar medium .[ 13]
A light curve for Delta Pictoris, plotted from TESS data[ 14]
The binary nature of this system was discovered by R. E. Wilson in 1914,[ 10] then it was found to be variable by A. W. J. Cousins in 1951.[ 15] A. D. A. Thackeray published orbital elements for the pair in 1966, showing they form an eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 1.67 days in essentially a circular orbit.[ 10] The low inclination of the orbital plane results in shallow eclipses.[ 3] The system is classified as a likely Beta Lyrae-type eclipsing binary with a peak magnitude of 4.65, which drops to 4.90 during the primary eclipse and 4.83 in the secondary eclipse.[ 7] It is probably a detached binary system with no circumstellar material being found.[ 3]
Both components of this system are massive main sequence stars[ 3] with a combined stellar classification of B1/2(III)n.[ 4] One member of the pair displays β Cep type pulsational behavior .[ 8] Mass estimates give a primary with 16.3 times the mass of the Sun and a secondary with about half that.[ 11]
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