S Scuti

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S Scuti
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A visual band light curve for S Scuti, plotted from ASAS data [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000        Equinox J2000
Constellation Scutum
Right ascension 18h 50m 20.03715s [2]
Declination −07° 54′ 27.4270″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)6.80 [3]
Characteristics
Spectral type C64 [4]
Variable type SRb
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−0.20 ± 1.6 [5]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: 7.92 [2]   mas/yr
Dec.: −4.55 [2]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)2.59 ± 0.57  mas [2]
Distance approx. 1,300  ly
(approx. 390  pc)
Details [6]
Radius 288 [a]   R☉
Luminosity 4,300±100  L☉
Temperature 2,755  K
Other designations
BD−08° 4726, HD  174325, HIP  92442, HR  7089, SAO  142674
Database references
SIMBAD data

S Scuti is a carbon star located in the constellation Scutum. Parallax measurements by Hipparcos put it at a distance of approximately 1,300 light-years (390 parsecs). [2] Its apparent magnitude is 6.80, [3] making it not quite bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.

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Louisa Dennison Wells discovered that the star is a variable star. Her discovery was announced in 1901. [7] It was listed with its variable star designation, S Scuti, in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalog of Variable Stars. [8] S Scuti is a semiregular variable star. Its class is SRb, and its pulsation cycle lasts 148 days. [4] S Scuti is also surrounded by a roughly spherical shell of dust. The shell was known earlier from its carbon monoxide emission lines. [6] The total mass of the dust is (7 ± 2)×10−5 M☉. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Calculated, using the Stefan-Boltzmann law and the star's effective temperature and luminosity, with respect to the solar nominal effective temperature of 5,772  K:

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References

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