Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
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Constellation | Carina |
Right ascension | 11h 20m 06.2287s [2] |
Declination | −65° 15′ 07.134″ [2] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 7.7 - 9.2 [3] |
Characteristics | |
Evolutionary stage | Red supergiant or AGB |
Spectral type | M3 II [4] or M3.8 Ib [5] |
Variable type | SRb [3] |
Astrometry | |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −6.197 [2] mas/yr Dec.: 0.522 [2] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 0.1665 ± 0.0546 mas [2] |
Distance | approx. 20,000 ly (approx. 6,000 pc) |
Details | |
Radius | 580 [6] [lower-alpha 1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 30,600 [6] L☉ |
Temperature | 3,302 [2] K |
Other designations | |
V538 Carinae, HD 98658, HIP 55355 | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
V538 Carinae is a variable star in the constellation of Carina, and a possible red supergiant. If this star replaced the Sun in the Solar System, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Mars.
V538 Carinae has a measured angular diameter of 3.4 mas . [7] Its distance is uncertain. At the Hipparcos distance of 1.33+5.81
−0.59 kpc , this corresponds to a radius of 580 R☉, [6] but at the distance implied by its Gaia Data Release 2 parallax, the radius would be around 1,900 R☉. [7] Calculations based on the Gaia DR2 parallax with temperatures and bolometric corrections inferred from Gaia colours give an even larger radius above 2,200 R☉. [8]
Some studies suggest that this star is a luminous AGB star and a long-period variable, instead of a supergiant. [9] It is classified in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars as a semiregular variable star of type SRb, indicating a cool pulsating giant star, with a possible period of 655 days. Its brightness varies between extremes of magnitude 7.7 and 9.2. [3]
V533 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 13,000 light years.
119 Tauri is a red supergiant star in the constellation Taurus. It is a semiregular variable and its angular diameter has been measured at about 10 mas.
NO Aurigae is a pulsating variable star in the constellation Auriga. It is an unusually-luminous asymptotic giant branch star about 3,500 light years away.
V381 Cephei is a triple star system in the northern constellation of Cepheus. Its apparent magnitude is slightly variable between 5.5 and 5.7.
V602 Carinae is a red supergiant and variable star of spectral type of M3 in the constellation Carina. It is one of largest known stars.
RT Carinae, also known as CD-58 3538, is a variable star in the Carina Nebula in the constellation Carina. It has a mean apparent magnitude of +8.55.
AH Scorpii is a red supergiant variable star located in the constellation Scorpius. It is one of the largest stars known by radius and is also one of the most luminous red supergiant stars in the Milky Way.
W Crucis is a single-lined eclipsing variable star system in the constellation Crux. It has a spectral class of F8/G1Ia/abe indicating a yellow supergiant with emission lines in its spectrum.
RX Telescopii is an irregular variable star in the constellation Telescopium. It has a maximum magnitude of 6.45 and a minimum magnitude 7.47. It is a red supergiant with a spectral type of M3Iab, indicating the star is an intermediate-size luminous supergiant star.
SV Vulpeculae is a classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Vulpecula. It is a supergiant at a distance of 8,700 light years.
EV Carinae is a red supergiant and pulsating variable star of spectral type M4Ia in the constellation Carina. It is a semiregular variable star with its apparent magnitude varying between 7.4 and 9.0 in the visible band, making it only seen by binoculars or a telescope. Various periods have been identified, but the dominant one is around 347 days. It is an MK spectral standard star for the class M4.5Ia.
HV 11423 is a red supergiant star in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 200,000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana.
RW Cygni is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Cygnus, about a degree east of 2nd magnitude γ Cygni. Its apparent magnitude varies between 8.05 and 9.70 and its spectral type between M3 and M4.
V419 Cephei is an irregular variable star in the constellation of Cepheus with an apparent magnitude that varies between 6.54 and 6.89.
CK Carinae is a variable star in the constellation Carina, the keel of Argo Navis. It is a member of the star association Carina OB1-D, at a distance of around 2,300 parsecs or 7,500 light years.
V528 Carinae is a variable star in the constellation Carina.
BO Carinae, also known as HD 93420, is an irregular variable star in the constellation Carina.
HD 143183 is a red supergiant variable star of spectral type M3Ia in constellation Norma. It is a member of the Norma OB1 association, at a distance of about 2 kiloparsecs. It is one of the most luminous red supergiants with a luminosity over 100,000 times greater than the Sun (L☉), and is as well one of the largest stars with a radius more than a thousand times that of the Sun (R☉). Older studies frequently calculated higher luminosities and radii. It has an estimated mass loss rate of 5×10−5 M☉ per year and has been once described as a cool hypergiant. It is surrounded by a dozen early-type stars and a circumstellar nebula which extends 0.12 parsecs (0.39 ly).
MZ Puppis is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Puppis. It has a radius of 400 R☉.
QY Puppis is a K-type supergiant star in the constellation of Puppis. With a radius of 515 R☉, it is on the smaller end of the largest known stars.