Star in the constellation of Aquarius
60 Aquarii is a star located 375 light years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius . 60 Aquarii is its Flamsteed designation . It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.89.[ 2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of –8 km/s.[ 4]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G6 III,[ 3] most likely on the horizontal branch .[ 8] It is 437[ 3] million years old with 2.77[ 3] times the mass of the Sun . Having exhausted the hydrogen at its core , this star has evolved away from the main sequence and expanded to 11[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 65[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,820 K.[ 6]
A magnitude 11.54 companion star is located at an angular separation of 100.90″ along a position angle of 299°, as of 2013.[ 9]
References
^ a b c d e f g 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 Johnson, H. L.; et al. (1966). "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars". Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory . 4 (99): 99. Bibcode :1966CoLPL...4...99J .
^ a b c d e f g Takeda, Yoichi; et al. (August 2008), "Stellar Parameters and Elemental Abundances of Late-G Giants", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan , 60 (4): 781– 802, arXiv :0805.2434 , Bibcode :2008PASJ...60..781T , doi :10.1093/pasj/60.4.781 , S2CID 16258166 .
^ a b Wilson, Ralph Elmer (1953), "General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities", Carnegie Institute Washington D.C. Publication , Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington , Bibcode :1953GCRV..C......0W .
^ a b van Leeuwen, F. (November 2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 474 (2): 653– 664, arXiv :0708.1752 , Bibcode :2007A&A...474..653V , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20078357 , S2CID 18759600
^ a b c d McWilliam, Andrew (December 1990), "High-resolution spectroscopic survey of 671 GK giants", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (PDF), 74 : 1075– 1128, Bibcode :1990ApJS...74.1075M , doi :10.1086/191527 .
^ "60 Aqr -- Star in double system" , SIMBAD , Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg , retrieved 2012-07-13 .
^ Stock, Stephan; et al. (August 2018), "Precise radial velocities of giant stars. X. Bayesian stellar parameters and evolutionary stages for 372 giant stars from the Lick planet search", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 616 : 15, arXiv :1805.04094 , Bibcode :2018A&A...616A..33S , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201833111 , S2CID 119361866 , A33.
^ Mason, B. D.; et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal , 122 (6): 3466, Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M , doi :10.1086/323920
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