V533 Carinae

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V533 Carinae
Carina constellation map.svg
Red circle.svg
Location of V533 Carinae (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000        Equinox J2000
Constellation Carina
Right ascension 11h 12m 36.01323s [1]
Declination −60° 19′ 03.4547″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)4.59 [2]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Blue supergiant
Spectral type A5Iae: [3]
U−B color index +0.08 [4]
B−V color index +0.52 [4]
Variable type α Cyg [5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−8.40 [6] km/s
Proper motion (μ)RA: −6.302 mas/yr [1]
Dec.: +2.021 mas/yr [1]
Parallax (π)0.3932±0.0883  mas [1]
Distance 9,200+3,100
−1,700  ly
(2,820+960
−530  pc) [7]
Absolute magnitude  (MV)−7.9 [8]
Details
Mass 17 [9]   M☉
Radius 245 [10]   R☉
Luminosity 96,000 [9]   L☉
Temperature 8,330 [9]   K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)34 [9]  km/s
Other designations
V533  Carinae, y  Carinae, HR  4352, HD  97534, CD−59°3611, HIP  54751, SAO  251316, GC  15415, CCDM  J11126-6019
Database references
SIMBAD data

V533 Carinae (V533 Car, y Car, y Carinae) is a A-type supergiant and a Alpha Cygni variable star with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.59 in the constellation Carina. It is located at a distance of about 9,000 light years. [7] It is visible to the naked eye outside of brightly-lit urban areas.

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Location

NGC 3572 plus nebulosity. V533 Car is the brightest star in the frame, on the right (south is up). The star cluster NGC 3572 and its dramatic surroundings.jpg
NGC 3572 plus nebulosity. V533 Car is the brightest star in the frame, on the right (south is up).

V533 Carinae is found near the Carina Nebula on the edge of the constellation Carina towards Crux. It is a member of Collinder 240, [8] [11] a sparse open cluster sometimes considered to be a portion of the richer nearby cluster NGC 3572. Together with the small clusters Hogg 10 and 11, they are all part of the Carina OB2 stellar association. [12]

V533 Carinae is the brightest star in the region. The other bright stars in NGC 3572 are hot young stars such as HD 97166 and all the clusters in the region are only a few million years old. [13]

V533 Carinae is classified as a double star with the companion being a magnitude 11.5 star 21.7 arc-seconds away. [14]

Variability

A light curve for V533 Carinae, plotted from Hipparcos data V533CarLightCurve.png
A light curve for V533 Carinae, plotted from Hipparcos data

V533 Carinae was one of many small amplitude variable stars detected from an analysis of Hipparcos photometry. It was granted its variable star designation in 1999 as a batch of 2,675 new variables. [16] It is classified as an Alpha Cygni type variable and its brightness varies from magnitude +4.69 to +4.75 as measured on the Hipparcos photometric scale. [5] A period of 1.58499 days and an average visual amplitude of 0.0146 magnitudes are quoted although the variations are not strictly regular. [2]

Properties

The Carina Nebula is at the very right edge of the frame (north is up) and V533 Car is the brightest star shown, near the open cluster NGC 3572. Wide-field view of the sky around the star cluster NGC 3572.jpg
The Carina Nebula is at the very right edge of the frame (north is up) and V533 Car is the brightest star shown, near the open cluster NGC 3572.

V533 Carinae is a bright supergiant with a luminosity around 100,000 times that of the sun. The temperature is over 8,000 K and the radius around 140 R☉. Its equatorial rotation is more than 15 times faster than the sun's.

Prior to 1971, it was always classified with an early or mid F-type spectral type, but since then has always been given a mid or late A class. [4] [17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv: 2208.00211 . Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID   244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 1 2 Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (2002). "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 331 (1): 45–59. arXiv: astro-ph/0112194 . Bibcode:2002MNRAS.331...45K. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x . S2CID   10505995.
  3. ↑ Gray, R. O.; Garrison, R. F. (1989). "The late A-type stars - Refined MK classification, confrontation with Stromgren photometry, and the effects of rotation". Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 70: 623. Bibcode:1989ApJS...70..623G. doi: 10.1086/191349 .
  4. 1 2 3 Malaroda, Stella (1973). "Classification of Some Bright F-Type Stars with Unusual Spectra". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 85 (505): 328. Bibcode:1973PASP...85..328M. doi:10.1086/129463.
  5. 1 2 Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S. 1. Bibcode:2009yCat....102025S.
  6. ↑ Gontcharov, G. A. (2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters. 32 (11): 759–771. arXiv: 1606.08053 . Bibcode:2006AstL...32..759G. doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065. S2CID   119231169.
  7. 1 2 Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Rybizki, J.; Fouesneau, M.; Demleitner, M.; Andrae, R. (2021-03-01). "Estimating distances from parallaxes. V: Geometric and photogeometric distances to 1.47 billion stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3". The Astronomical Journal. 161 (3): 147. arXiv: 2012.05220 . Bibcode:2021AJ....161..147B. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/abd806 . ISSN   0004-6256. Data about this star can be seen here.
  8. 1 2 Arellano Ferro, A.; Parrao, L. (1990). "Colour excesses and absolute magnitudes for non-Cepheid F-G supergiants from uvbybeta photometry". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 239: 205. Bibcode:1990A&A...239..205A.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Snow, Theodore P.; Lamers, Henny J. G. L. M.; Lindholm, Douglas M.; Odell, Andrew P. (1994). "An atlas of ultraviolet P Cygni profiles". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 95: 163. Bibcode:1994ApJS...95..163S. doi: 10.1086/192099 .
  10. ↑ Kervella, Pierre; Arenou, Frédéric; Thévenin, Frédéric (2022-01-01). "Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3. Proper-motion anomaly and resolved common proper-motion pairs". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 657: A7. arXiv: 2109.10912 . Bibcode:2022A&A...657A...7K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202142146. ISSN   0004-6361. c Puppis' database entry at VizieR.
  11. ↑ Sampedro, L.; Dias, W. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Monteiro, H.; Molino, A. (Oct 2017). "A multimembership catalogue for 1876 open clusters using UCAC4 data". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 470 (4): 3937–3945. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.470.3937S. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1485 . ISSN   0035-8711. y Carinae's database entry at VizieR.
  12. ↑ Clariá, J. J. (1976). "Relation of NGC 3590, Hogg 10, and Collinder 240 to the structure of the Carina spiral feature". Astronomical Journal. 81: 155. Bibcode:1976AJ.....81..155C. doi:10.1086/111870.
  13. ↑ Messina, S. (2007). "The RACE-OC project: Rotation and ACtivity Evolution in Open Clusters". Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana. 78: 628. Bibcode:2007MmSAI..78..628M.
  14. ↑ Dommanget, J.; Nys, O. (1994). "Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple stars (CCDM). First edition". Obs. R. Belg. 115. Bibcode:1994CoORB.115.....D.
  15. ↑ "Hipparcos Tools Interactive Data Access". Hipparcos. ESA. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  16. ↑ Kazarovets, E. V.; Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; Frolov, M. S.; Antipin, S. V.; Kireeva, N. N.; Pastukhova, E. N. (1999). "The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars". Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. 4659: 1. Bibcode:1999IBVS.4659....1K.
  17. ↑ Skiff, B. A. (2014). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2009-2016)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/Mk. Originally Published in: Lowell Observatory (October 2014). 1. Bibcode:2014yCat....1.2023S.
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