Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
---|---|
Constellation | Pegasus |
Right ascension | 23h 07m 06.74364s [1] |
Declination | 25° 28′ 05.788″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.74 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K0.5II:Ba1CN-2CH-0.5 [3] + sdO [4] [5] |
U−B color index | +1.14 [2] |
B−V color index | +1.32 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −27.55 [6] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: −4.288
[1]
mas/
yr Dec.: −32.639 [1] mas/ yr |
Parallax (π) | 6.1131 ± 0.4108 mas [1] |
Distance | 530 ± 40
ly (160 ± 10 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | −1.32 [7] |
Orbit [5] | |
Period (P) | 111.140±0.14 d |
Eccentricity (e) | 0 |
Periastron epoch (T) | 51738.8±0.5 MJD |
Semi-amplitude (K1) (primary) | 1.47±0.04 km/s |
Details | |
56 Peg A | |
Mass | 5.4 [8] M☉ |
Radius | 41 [9] R☉ |
Luminosity | 18.2 - 18.9 [9] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 0.50 [10] cgs |
Temperature | 4,185±85 [9] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.21 [11] dex |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 4.4 [12] km/s |
Age | 100±100 [8] Myr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
56 Pegasi is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Pegasus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.74. [2] The system is approximately 590 light years away from the Sun based on parallax, [14] but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −28 km/s. [6] It is listed as a member of the Wolf 630 moving group. [15]
The variable radial velocity of this star was announced in 1911 by W. W. Campbell. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary in an assumed circular orbit with a period of 111.1 days. The a sin i value for this system is 0.01511 ± 0.00040 AU (2.26 ± 0.06 Gm), where a is the semimajor axis and i is the (unknown) orbital inclination. This value provides a lower bound on the true semimajor axis, which in this case is their actual separation. [5]
The primary component is a peculiar bright giant with a stellar classification of K0.5 II: Ba1 CN-2 CH-0.5. [3] This notation indicates it is a K-type giant with some uncertainty about the classification, along with an overabundance of barium and underabundances of the CN and CH radicals. It is an active star, [16] roughly 100 million years old, with 5.4 times the Sun's mass. [8] The star has expanded to 40 [17] times the radius of the Sun and is radiating 680 [11] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,416 K. [18]
The system displays an excess of ultraviolet radiation that must be coming from the secondary companion. Simon et al. (1982) classified this object as a subdwarf O star. [4] Alternatively, it may be a white dwarf companion with an accretion disk. [19] [5] Several puzzling features in the evolutionary history of this pair may be explained if the primary is a fast rotator being seen nearly pole-on. The star may have been spun up during a mass transfer episode with the secondary. [16]
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
---|---|
Constellation | Pegasus |
Right ascension | 23h 07m 06.74364s [1] |
Declination | 25° 28′ 05.788″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.74 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K0.5II:Ba1CN-2CH-0.5 [3] + sdO [4] [5] |
U−B color index | +1.14 [2] |
B−V color index | +1.32 [2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −27.55 [6] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) |
RA: −4.288
[1]
mas/
yr Dec.: −32.639 [1] mas/ yr |
Parallax (π) | 6.1131 ± 0.4108 mas [1] |
Distance | 530 ± 40
ly (160 ± 10 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | −1.32 [7] |
Orbit [5] | |
Period (P) | 111.140±0.14 d |
Eccentricity (e) | 0 |
Periastron epoch (T) | 51738.8±0.5 MJD |
Semi-amplitude (K1) (primary) | 1.47±0.04 km/s |
Details | |
56 Peg A | |
Mass | 5.4 [8] M☉ |
Radius | 41 [9] R☉ |
Luminosity | 18.2 - 18.9 [9] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 0.50 [10] cgs |
Temperature | 4,185±85 [9] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.21 [11] dex |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 4.4 [12] km/s |
Age | 100±100 [8] Myr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
56 Pegasi is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Pegasus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.74. [2] The system is approximately 590 light years away from the Sun based on parallax, [14] but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −28 km/s. [6] It is listed as a member of the Wolf 630 moving group. [15]
The variable radial velocity of this star was announced in 1911 by W. W. Campbell. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary in an assumed circular orbit with a period of 111.1 days. The a sin i value for this system is 0.01511 ± 0.00040 AU (2.26 ± 0.06 Gm), where a is the semimajor axis and i is the (unknown) orbital inclination. This value provides a lower bound on the true semimajor axis, which in this case is their actual separation. [5]
The primary component is a peculiar bright giant with a stellar classification of K0.5 II: Ba1 CN-2 CH-0.5. [3] This notation indicates it is a K-type giant with some uncertainty about the classification, along with an overabundance of barium and underabundances of the CN and CH radicals. It is an active star, [16] roughly 100 million years old, with 5.4 times the Sun's mass. [8] The star has expanded to 40 [17] times the radius of the Sun and is radiating 680 [11] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,416 K. [18]
The system displays an excess of ultraviolet radiation that must be coming from the secondary companion. Simon et al. (1982) classified this object as a subdwarf O star. [4] Alternatively, it may be a white dwarf companion with an accretion disk. [19] [5] Several puzzling features in the evolutionary history of this pair may be explained if the primary is a fast rotator being seen nearly pole-on. The star may have been spun up during a mass transfer episode with the secondary. [16]