Star in the constellation Aquarius
30 Aquarii is a single[ 10] star located about 301 light years away from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius . 30 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.56.[ 2] The star is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 40 km/s.[ 2]
This object is an aging G-type giant star [ 6] [ 5] with a stellar classification of G8 III,[ 4] although Houk and Swift (1999) found a class of K1 IV.[ 3] It is a red clump giant,[ 6] which indicates it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core . The star is nearly two[ 2] billion years old with a leisurely rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 1.6 km/s.[ 8] It has double[ 2] the mass of the Sun and has expanded to ten[ 1] times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 55[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,944 K.[ 2]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i Brown, A. G. A. ; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616 . A1. arXiv :1804.09365 . Bibcode :2018A&A...616A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 . Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", The Astronomical Journal , 150 (3): 88, arXiv :1507.01466 , Bibcode :2015AJ....150...88L , doi :10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88 , S2CID 118505114 .
^ a b Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars", Michigan Spectral Survey , 5 , Bibcode :1999MSS...C05....0H .
^ a b Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters , 38 (5): 331, arXiv :1108.4971 , Bibcode :2012AstL...38..331A , doi :10.1134/S1063773712050015 , S2CID 119257644 .
^ a b Henry, Gregory W.; et al. (September 2000), "Photometric Variability in a Sample of 187 G and K Giants", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 130 (1): 201– 225, Bibcode :2000ApJS..130..201H , CiteSeerX 10.1.1.40.8526 , doi :10.1086/317346 , S2CID 17160805 .
^ a b c Alves, David R. (August 2000), "K-Band Calibration of the Red Clump Luminosity", The Astrophysical Journal , 539 (2): 732– 741, arXiv :astro-ph/0003329 , Bibcode :2000ApJ...539..732A , doi :10.1086/309278 , S2CID 16673121 .
^ a b McWilliam, Andrew (December 1990), "High-resolution spectroscopic survey of 671 GK giants. I - Stellar atmosphere parameters and abundances", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 74 : 1075– 1128, Bibcode :1990ApJS...74.1075M , doi :10.1086/191527 .
^ a b Massarotti, Alessandro; et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 Hipparcos Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal , 135 (1): 209– 231, Bibcode :2008AJ....135..209M , doi :10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209 , S2CID 121883397
^ "30 Aqr" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-05-16 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
External links
"30 Aquarii" . Star Date Pages . Alcyone Astronomical Software. Archived from the original on 2005-09-03. Retrieved 2008-06-22 .