Sher 25

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Sher 25
Sher 25 Hubble WFC3 F656N.jpg
HST image of Sher 25 its nebula. NGC 3603 is on the lower left.
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0        Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Carina
Right ascension 11h 15m 7.645s [1]
Declination −61° 15′ 17.61″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)12.23 [2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B1Iab [2]
U−B color index 0.13 [3]
B−V color index 1.42 [3]
Variable type cLBV [4]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ)RA: −5.387 [1]   mas/yr
Dec.: +2.116 [1]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.1560 ± 0.0166  mas [1]
Distance 17,700±2,300  ly
(5,440±700  pc) [5]
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−7.05±0.34 [5]
Details [5]
Mass 25.5±1.7  M☉
Radius 42±7  R☉
Luminosity (bolometric)308,000+115,000
−83,000  L☉
Surface gravity (log g)2.61±0.06  cgs
Temperature 20,900±500  K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)60±5 km/s
Age 7.24+0.70
−0.64  Myr
Other designations
Sher 25, NGC 3603-25, NGC 3603 MTT 13, NGC 3603 MDS 5
Database references
SIMBAD data

Sher 25 is a blue supergiant star in the constellation Carina, located approximately 25,000 light years from the Sun in the H II region NGC 3603 of the Milky Way. [6] It is a spectral type B1Iab star with an apparent magnitude of 12.2. [7] Its initial main sequence mass is calculated at 60 times the mass of the Sun, but a star of this type will have already lost a substantial fraction of that mass. It is unclear whether Sher 25 has been through a red supergiant phase or has just evolved from the main sequence, so the current mass is very uncertain. [8]

The name derives from the original cataloguing of stars in NGC 3603 by David Sher. This catalogue entry is more fully referred to as NGC 3603 Sher 25 to distinguish it from stars potentially numbered 25 by Sher in other clusters (eg. NGC 3766). [9] The same star was numbered 13 by Melnick, Tapia, and Terlevich [3] (MTT 13) and 5 in a Hubble Space Telescope survey by Moffat, Drissen, and Shara [10] (NGC 3603 MDS 5).

It is speculated that Sher 25 is near the point of exploding as a supernova, as it has recently thrown off matter in a pattern similar to that of supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with a circumstellar ring and bipolar outflow filaments. [4]

Regular variations in the doppler shift of the star's spectral lines with a period of a few days may be due to orbital motion about a companion star, or to pulsations of the star's surface. [11]

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