U Hydrae

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U Hydrae
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A visual band light curve for U Hydrae, plotted from ASAS data [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Hydra
Right ascension 10h 37m 33.27295s [2]
Declination −13° 23′ 04.3529″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)4.89 [3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage AGB [4]
Spectral type C-N5 C2 5- [5]
B−V color index 2.80±0.51 [3]
Variable type SRb [6]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−25.8±1.7 [7]  km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: +42.59 [2]   mas/yr
Dec.: −37.72 [2]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)4.80 ± 0.23  mas [2]
Distance 680 ± 30  ly
(208 ± 10  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−1.70 [3]
Details
Mass 0.75 [4]   M☉
Radius 274 –415 [4] [a]   R☉
Luminosity 3,476 [4]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)−0.28 [4]   cgs
Temperature 2,600–3,200 [4]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.1 [8]   dex
Other designations
U Hya, BD−12°3218, HD  92055, HIP  52009, HR  4163, SAO  156110 [9]
Database references
SIMBAD data

U Hydrae is a single [10] star in the equatorial constellation of Hydra, near the northern constellation border with Sextans. It is visible to the naked eye under good observing conditions. It is a semiregular variable star of sub-type SRb, [6] with its brightness ranging from visual magnitude (V) 4.7 to 5.2 over a 450-day period, with some irregularity. [11] This object is located at a distance of approximately 680  light years from the Sun based on parallax. [2] It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −26 km/s. [7]

In 1871, Benjamin Apthorp Gould discovered that the star is a variable star. It was listed with its variable star designation, U Hydrae, in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalog of Variable Stars. [12]

This is a carbon-rich red giant star on the asymptotic giant branch [4] – a carbon star – with s-process elements appearing in the spectrum. It has a stellar classification of C-N5 with a carbon star class of C2 5-. [5] The star is losing mass at the rate of 1.2×10−7  M☉ ·yr−1, with an outflow velocity of 6.9 km/s. Technetium has been detected in the spectrum, suggesting the star has experienced a third dredge-up episode due to thermal pulses of the helium-burning shell some time within the last 100,000 years. [13]

An ultraviolet (UV) excess has been detected coming from an extended elliptical ring that surrounds this star. It has a mean angular radius of 110″ and lines up with a detached shell of dusty material that was previously detected in the infrared band. The material was most likely ejected from the star due to mass loss episodes. The probable cause of the UV emission is from the movement of the star through space and possibly shock-excited molecules of H2. The emission does not show a bow-shock-like structure. [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Applying the Stefan–Boltzmann law with a nominal solar effective temperature of 5,772  K:
    .

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References

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