Star in the constellation Aquarius
28 Aquarii is a single[ 9] star located about 560 light years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius . 28 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation .[ 8] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.6.[ 2] This object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +8.1 km/s.[ 5]
This 2.9[ 7] billion year old object is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III.[ 3] After exhausting the hydrogen at its core , this star evolved off the main sequence and has now expanded to 28[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It has 1.47 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 258[ 1] times the Sun's luminosity from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,361 K.[ 7]
References
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^ a b c Martig, Marie; Fouesneau, Morgan; Rix, Hans-Walter; Ness, Melissa; Mészáros, Szabolcs; García-Hernández, D. A.; Pinsonneault, Marc; Serenelli, Aldo; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Zamora, Olga (2016). "Red giant masses and ages derived from carbon and nitrogen abundances" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 456 (4): 3655. arXiv :1511.08203 . Bibcode :2016MNRAS.456.3655M . doi :10.1093/mnras/stv2830 .
^ a b "* 28 Aqr" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 30 January 2018 .
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