HV 11423

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HV 11423
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HV 11423 is visible in the full-size image, just to the left (south is up) of cluster NGC 361 (below centre, between the two bright foreground stars). (Digitized Sky Survey 2)
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Tucana
Right ascension 01h 00m 55.20s [1]
Declination −71° 37′ 52.9″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.84 - 12.46 [2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Red supergiant
Spectral type M0 Iab [3] (K0/1 I - M4.5/5 I [4] )
B−V color index +1.88 - +1.95 [2]
Variable type Lc [5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)108.268 [6]  km/s
Parallax (π)0.0692 ± 0.0336  mas [7]
Distance 200,000  ly
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−6.5 - −8.4 [4]
Details [4] [8]
Mass 30-40  M☉
Radius 1,060-1,220 (Spectral fit), 960-1,000 (V-K)  R☉
Luminosity 350,000-200,000 (Spectral fit), 166,000 (V-K)  L☉
Surface gravity (log g)−0.4-−0.2  cgs
Temperature 4,300-3,500 (Spectral fit), 4,4803,635 (V-K)  K
Other designations
PMMR 114, LI-SMC 140, 2MASS  J01005519-7137529
Database references
SIMBAD data

HV 11423 (PMMR 114 or 140 LI-SMC) is a red supergiant star in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 200,000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana.

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Visibility

The spectral type of HV 11423 is variable, from K0-1I in December 2004, to M4I in December 2005, and back to K0-1I by September 2006. Very Large Telescope file spectra show that in December 2001 the star was even cooler (M4-5I). By contrast, in October 1978 and a year later, it appeared as a star of class M0I. The spectral type M4-5 is the latest observed in a supergiant of the Small Magellanic Cloud. [4]

Characteristics

A visual band light curve for HV 11423, adapted from Massey et al. (2007) HV11423LightCurve.png
A visual band light curve for HV 11423, adapted from Massey et al. (2007)

HV 11423 is one of the largest known stars with an estimated radius over 1,000 times larger than the sun. It is also a variable star with a variation of up 2 magnitudes at visual wavelengths but essentially constant in the infrared. It is listed in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars as a slow irregular variable, but a period of 720 days has been calculated, as well as a long secondary period of 1,817 days. [9]

The bolometric luminosity is about 200,000 times more than Sun, [8] making it one of the most luminous cool supergiants, and appears to have remained unchanged during the brightness and spectral variations. It is thought that the star is currently undergoing a period of intense instability, in which its effective temperature changes from 4,300 to 3,300 K in a time scale of months; V-band variability may be due primarily to variations in temperature as well as changes in the local extinction due to the creation and dissipation of circumstellar dust. It is speculated that the star may be nearing the end of its life, [4] although the mass loss rate is still moderate at 0.0906 M☉ per million years. [8]

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