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Star in the constellation Hercules From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xi Herculis is a solitary[11] star located within the northern constellation of Hercules. The star is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.70.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 23.85 mas as seen from Earth, it is located 137 light years from the Sun.[1] At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.05 due to interstellar dust. It is a suspected member of the Sirius stream of co-moving stars.[12]
Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Hercules |
Right ascension | 17h 57m 45.88567s[1] |
Declination | +29° 14′ 52.3660″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 3.70[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | G8 III[3] |
U−B color index | +0.66[2] |
B−V color index | +0.93[2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −1.65±0.17[4] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: 81.919 mas/yr[1] Dec.: −18.962 mas/yr[1] |
Parallax (π) | 23.8544 ± 0.1068 mas[1] |
Distance | 136.7 ± 0.6 ly (41.9 ± 0.2 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | +0.62[5] |
Details | |
Mass | 2.01[6] M☉ |
Radius | 9.94±0.09[7] R☉ |
Luminosity | 57.2±2.1[7] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 2.87±0.09[8] cgs |
Temperature | 5,032±48[7] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | +0.09±0.04[8] dex |
Rotation | 67[9] d |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 2.8[4] km/s |
Age | 2.48[6] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
This is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III.[3] It is a red clump star, which means it is on the horizontal branch and generating energy through the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. The star is emitting X-rays with a luminosity of 3.03×1030 erg s−1 in the 0.3–10 keV band.[9] It has twice[6] the mass of the Sun but, at the age of two and a half billion years,[6] it has expanded to 10 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 57 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,032 K.[7]
Xi Herculis is a semiregular variable star, oscillating in brightness by 3 hundredths of a magnitude, over a period of 120.8 days.[14]
In R.H.Allen's book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, this star, together with ν Her and 99 Her (b Herculis) represent the state of Zhongshan (or Chung Shan' "the Middle Mountain"),[15] but in Chinese literature, that names is applied to ο Her.[16]
One third of a degree to the north-northwest of Xi Herculis is the location of a telescopic asterism in the shape of a teapot. This teapot (Markov 1) could be seen as a somewhat twisted small equivalent of the large and easy to recognize teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius.
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