V1339 Aquilae

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V1339 Aquilae
V1339AqlLightCurve.png
A light curve for V1339 Aquilae, plotted from Hipparcos data [1]
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Aquila
Right ascension 19h 50m 17.47943s
Declination +07° 54 08.6934
Apparent magnitude  (V)6.484
Characteristics
Spectral type B2.5IVe
U−B color index -0.7
B−V color index -0.1
Variable type Be star
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)-30.10 ± 5 km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: -0.77 ± 0.39  mas/yr
Dec.: -5.44 ± 0.46  mas/yr
Parallax (π)1.89 ± 0.45  mas
Distance approx. 1,700  ly
(approx. 500  pc)
Details
Mass 13.0 [2]   M
Radius 7.7 [2]   R
Temperature 23310 [2]   K
Other designations
SAO 125116, HD 187567, BD+07° 4252, HIP 97607, HR 7554.
Database references
SIMBAD data

V1339 Aquilae, also known as HD 187567, is a Be star in the constellation Aquila. At its brightest its apparent magnitude is 6.22, [3] making it barely visible to the naked eye at a location with very little light pollution. It is located just 8 arc seconds from the center of the open cluster NGC 6828. [4]

V1339 Aquilae was discovered to be a Be star in 1925 by P. W. Merrill, M. L. Humason and C. G. Burwell. [5] The star's variability was detected in 1966 by A. W. J. Cousins, R. Lake and R. H. Stoy, [6] and because of this it was given its variable star designation, V1339 Aquilae, in 1979. [7]

V1339 Aquilae is around 13 times as massive as the Sun and has 7.7 times its diameter. [2] Its binary nature was discovered by speckle interferometry in 1983, at the Kitt Peak 4 meter telescope. At the time of these speckle observations the stars were separated by 0.057 arc seconds. [8]

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