Binary star system in the constellation Aquarius
51 Aquarii is a binary star [ 2] system located around 410[ 1] light years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius . 51 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.78.[ 4] The system is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +6 km/s.[ 5]
The dual nature of this system was discovered by S. W. Burnham in 1873
with a 6 inches (15 cm) Alvan Clark refractor .[ 9] The pair orbit each other with a period of 145 years and a large eccentricity of 0.7.[ 6] The magnitude 6.45[ 2] primary, designated component A, is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V.[ 3] It has a high rate of rotation with a projected rotational velocity of 91 km/s.[ 10] The secondary component has a matching class of A0 with a visual magnitude of 6.63.[ 2] It has an effective temperature of 10,238 K.
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^ a b Cowley, A.; et al. (April 1969), "A study of the bright A stars. I. A catalogue of spectral classifications", Astronomical Journal , 74 : 375– 406, Bibcode :1969AJ.....74..375C , doi :10.1086/110819 .
^ a b c Nicolet, B. (1978), "Photoelectric photometric Catalogue of homogeneous measurements in the UBV System", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series , 34 : 1– 49, Bibcode :1978A&AS...34....1N .
^ a b Wilson, R. E. (1953), "General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities", Carnegie Institute Washington D.C. Publication , Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., Bibcode :1953GCRV..C......0W .
^ a b Tokovinin, Andrei; Mason, Brian D.; Hartkopf, William I.; Mendez, Rene A.; Horch, Elliott P. (2015), "Speckle Interferometry at Soar in 2014", The Astronomical Journal , 150 (2): 50, arXiv :1506.05718 , Bibcode :2015AJ....150...50T , doi :10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/50 , S2CID 30737411 .
^ a b c d Zorec, J.; Royer, F.; Asplund, Martin; Cassisi, Santi; Ramirez, Ivan; Melendez, Jorge; Bensby, Thomas; Feltzing, Sofia (2012), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. IV. Evolution of rotational velocities", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 537 : A120, arXiv :1201.2052 , Bibcode :2012A&A...537A.120Z , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201117691 , S2CID 55586789 .
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^ Docobo, J. A.; Ling, J. F. (April 2007), "Orbits and System Masses of 14 Visual Double Stars with Early-Type Components", The Astronomical Journal , 133 (4): 1209– 1216, Bibcode :2007AJ....133.1209D , doi :10.1086/511070 , S2CID 120821801
^ Royer, F.; Zorec, J.; Gómez, A. E. (February 2007), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. III. Velocity distributions", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 463 (2): 671– 682, arXiv :astro-ph/0610785 , Bibcode :2007A&A...463..671R , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20065224 , S2CID 18475298 .
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