Star in the constellation Aquarius
Tau1 Aquarii , Latinized from τ1 Aquarii, is the Bayer designation for a single[ 11] star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius . With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.66,[ 2] it is a faint naked eye that requires dark suburban skies for viewing. Parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission yield a distance estimate of roughly 355 light-years (109 parsecs ) from Earth.[ 1] The star is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +15 km/s.[ 5] It is a candidate member of the Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream .[ 12]
The stellar classification of τ1 Aquarii is B9 V;[ 3] right along the borderline between a B- and A-type main sequence star . This is a candidate silicon star ; a type of Ap star of class CP2 that shows a magnetic field .[ 13] It is around 100[ 9] million years old and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 185 km/s.[ 7] The star has 2.7[ 7] times the mass of the Sun and double the Sun's radius.[ 8] It is radiating 63.5[ 7] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,617 K.[ 7] When examined in the infrared band, it displays an excess emission that is a characteristic of stars with an orbiting debris disk . The model that best fits the data suggests there are two concentric circumstellar disks .[ 9]
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^ a b Pasinetti Fracassini, L. E.; et al. (February 2001), "Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS) - Third edition - Comments and statistics", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 367 (2): 521–524, arXiv :astro-ph/0012289 , Bibcode :2001A&A...367..521P , doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20000451 , S2CID 425754 .
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^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869–879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Curtis, Jason L.; et al. (August 2019), "TESS Reveals that the Nearby Pisces-Eridanus Stellar Stream is only 120 Myr Old", The Astronomical Journal , 158 (2): 11, arXiv :1905.10588 , Bibcode :2019AJ....158...77C , doi :10.3847/1538-3881/ab2899 , S2CID 166228270 , 77.
^ Wraight, K. T.; et al. (2012), "A photometric study of chemically peculiar stars with the STEREO satellites - I. Magnetic chemically peculiar stars★", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 420 (1): 757–772, arXiv :1110.6283 , Bibcode :2012MNRAS.420..757W , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20090.x , S2CID 14811051 .
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