Omega Aurigae
Star in the constellation Auriga
Omega Aurigae , Latinized from ω Aurigae , is the Bayer designation for a double star [ 11] in the northern constellation of Auriga . Its apparent magnitude is 4.95,[ 2] which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. The distance to this system, as determined using parallax measurements, is approximately 162 light-years (50 parsecs ).[ 1] The system is a member of the Columba group of co-moving stars.[ 12]
This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A1 V.[ 4] It is 317[ 9] million years old with a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 107 km/s.[ 8] The star has 2.3[ 3] times the mass of the Sun and double[ 7] the Sun's radius . It is radiating 27[ 6] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,230 K.[ 4] The object displays an infrared excess , suggesting an orbiting debris disk with a temperature of 20 K at a mean radius of 932.40 AU from the host star.[ 7] It has a magnitude 8.18 companion at an angular separation of 4.99 arcseconds .[ 11] The system is an X-ray source with a luminosity of 16.57× 1029 ergs s−1 .[ 13]
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^ a b Royer, F.; Zorec, J.; Gómez, A. E. (February 2007), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. III. Velocity distributions", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 463 (2): 671–682, arXiv :astro-ph/0610785 , Bibcode :2007A&A...463..671R , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20065224 , S2CID 18475298 .
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^ a b 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 .
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^ Makarov, Valeri V. (October 2003), "The 100 Brightest X-Ray Stars within 50 Parsecs of the Sun", The Astronomical Journal , 126 (4): 1996–2008, Bibcode :2003AJ....126.1996M , doi :10.1086/378164 .
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