R Canum Venaticorum

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R Canum Venaticorum
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The visual band light curve of R Canum Venaticorum, from AAVSO data [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Canes Venatici
Right ascension 13h 48m 57.0416s [2]
Declination +39° 32′ 33.174″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)6.5 - 12.9 [3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage AGB [4]
Spectral type M5.5e-M9e [3]
U−B color index +0.41 [5]
B−V color index +1.22 [5]
Variable type Mira [3]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−6.80 [6] km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −1.115 [2] mas/yr
Dec.: −5.148 [2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)2.1711±0.1262  mas [2]
Distance 1,500 ± 90  ly
(460 ± 30  pc)
Details
Mass 2.26 [7]   M☉
Radius 664 [7]   R☉
Luminosity 29,251 [8]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)2.19 [9]   cgs
Temperature 3,108 [8]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.25 [9]   dex
Other designations
R  CVn, SAO  63763, GSC  03027-00252, BD+40°2694, HD  120499, DO  14814, GC  18671, HIP  67410, HR 5199
Database references
SIMBAD data

R Canum Venaticorum is a Mira variable star in the constellation Canes Venatici. It ranges between magnitudes 6.5 and 12.9 over a period of approximately 329 days. [3] It is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, but when it is near its maximum brightness it can be seen with binoculars.

Thomas E. Espin discovered this variable star in 1888. [10] It appeared with its variable star designation, R Canum Venaticorum in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalogue of Variable Stars. [11]

Having exhausted its core helium, R Canum Venaticorum is on the asymptotic giant branch, producing energy from concentric hydrogen and helium shells. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Download Data". aavso.org. AAVSO. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv: 2208.00211 . Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID   244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. 1 2 3 4 VSX (4 January 2010). "R Canum Venaticorum". AAVSO Website. American Association of Variable Star Observers . Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  4. 1 2 Eggen, Olin J. (1992). "Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Near the Sun". The Astronomical Journal. 104: 275. Bibcode:1992AJ....104..275E. doi:10.1086/116239.
  5. 1 2 Myers, J. R.; Sande, C. B.; Miller, A. C.; Warren, W. H.; Tracewell, D. A. (2015). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: SKY2000 Master Catalog, Version 5 (Myers+ 2006)". Vizier Online Data Catalog. Bibcode:2015yCat.5145....0M.
  6. ↑ Gontcharov, G. A. (2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters. 32 (11): 759–771. arXiv: 1606.08053 . Bibcode:2006AstL...32..759G. doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065. S2CID   119231169.
  7. 1 2 Kervella, Pierre; Arenou, Frédéric; Thévenin, Frédéric (2022). "Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3. Proper-motion anomaly and resolved common proper-motion pairs". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 657: 657. arXiv: 2109.10912 . Bibcode:2022A&A...657A...7K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202142146. S2CID   237605138.
  8. 1 2 Chandler, Colin Orion; et al. (2016). "The Catalog of Earth-Like Exoplanet Survey Targets (CELESTA): A Database of Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars". The Astronomical Journal. 151 (3): 59. arXiv: 1510.05666 . Bibcode:2016AJ....151...59C. doi: 10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/59 . S2CID   119246448.
  9. 1 2 Khalatyan, A.; Anders, F.; Chiappini, C.; Queiroz, A. B. A.; Nepal, S.; Dal Ponte, M.; Jordi, C.; Guiglion, G.; Valentini, M.; Torralba Elipe, G.; Steinmetz, M.; Pantaleoni-González, M.; Malhotra, S.; Jiménez-Arranz, Ó.; Enke, H.; Casamiquela, L.; Ardèvol, J. (2024). "Transferring spectroscopic stellar labels to 217 million Gaia DR3 XP stars with SHBoost". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 691: A98. arXiv: 2407.06963 . Bibcode:2024A&A...691A..98K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451427.
  10. ↑ Espin, T. E. (April 1888). "Entdeckung eines neuen Veränderlichen im Sternbilde Canes venatici". Astronomische Nachrichten. 119: 39. Bibcode:1888AN....119...39E.
  11. ↑ Cannon, Annie J. (1907). "Second catalogue of variable stars". Annals of Harvard College Observatory. 55: 1–94. Bibcode:1907AnHar..55....1C.
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