T Persei

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T Persei
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A visual band light curve For T Persei, plotted from AAVSO data [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Perseus
Right ascension 2h 19m 21.87717s [2]
Declination +58° 57 40.3455 [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)8.34-9.70 [3]
Characteristics
Spectral type M2Iab [4]
U−B color index +2.62 [5]
B−V color index +2.33 [5]
Variable type SRc [3]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−40.85 [6]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −1.237 [2]   mas/yr
Dec.: −0.186 [2]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.4119 ± 0.0237  mas [2]
Distance 2345±55 [7]   pc
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−6.90±0.07 [7]
Details [7]
Mass 9-12  M
Radius 510±20  R
Luminosity 45,700+4,400
−4,000
  L
Surface gravity (log g)0.06±0.05  cgs
Temperature 3,750±60  K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.35  dex
Other designations
T  Per, HD 14142, HIP  10829, BD+58°439, WDS  J02194+5858, 2MASS  J02192186+5857403, AAVSO  0212+58
Database references
SIMBAD data

T Persei is a red supergiant located in the constellation Perseus. It varies in brightness between magnitudes 8.3 and 9.7 and is considered to be a member of the Double Cluster.

T Persei is a member of the Perseus OB1 association around the h and χ Persei open clusters, around 2 degrees north of the centre of the clusters. It is generally treated as an outlying member of the clusters. [8] It lies half a degree away from S Persei, another red supergiant Double Cluster member.

Vojtěch Šafařík discovered that the star is a variable star in 1882. [9] It was listed with its variable star designation, T Persei, in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalog of Variable Stars. [10] T Per is a semiregular variable star, whose brightness varies from magnitude 8.34 to 9.7 over a period of 2,430 days. [3] Unlike many red supergiants, it does not appear to have a long secondary period. [4] [11] It is relatively inactive for the red supergiant star, with low mass loss rate 8×10−6  Solar_mass /year and no detectable dust shell. [12]

The Washington Double Star Catalog lists T Persei as having a 9th magnitude companion 0.1  arc-seconds away. This is derived from Hipparcos measurements. However, no other sources report a companion. [13]

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