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Yellow-white hued star in the constellation Vela
Light curve of the
classical Cepheid variable AH Velorum recorded by NASA's
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
AH Velorum is a single,
[11] yellow-white hued
star in the
constellation
Vela . It has an average
apparent visual magnitude of 5.70,
[2] which makes it bright enough to be dimly visible to the naked eye in good seeing conditions. The distance to this star can be estimated from its annual
parallax shift of 1.217
mas ,
[1] which yields a separation of roughly 2,700
light years . It is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocentric
radial velocity of +26 km/s.
[6]
It is a
bright giant /
supergiant of spectral type F7 Ib-II.
[12] The star is around 50
[8] million years old with a
projected rotational velocity of 10 km/s.
[9] It has 7
[8] times the
mass of the Sun and is radiating 930
[7] times the
Sun's luminosity from its
photosphere at an
effective temperature of 6,102 K.
[5]
A
classical Cepheid variable ,
[3] its
apparent magnitude ranges from 5.50 to 5.89 over 4.227171 days.
[12] It pulsates in the first overtone, with a fundamental period of 6.04 days.
[2]
References
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Gaia DR2 record for this source at
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e Luck, R. Earle (2014).
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Bibcode :
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arXiv :
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Bibcode :
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doi :
10.1051/0004-6361/201219219 .
S2CID
59451347 . A61.
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c Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters . 38 (5): 331.
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d Tetzlaff, N.; et al. (January 2011), "A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 410 (1): 190–200,
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S2CID
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b Ammler-von Eiff, Matthias; Reiners, Ansgar (June 2012), "New measurements of rotation and differential rotation in A-F stars: are there two populations of differentially rotating stars?", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 542 : A116,
arXiv :
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Bibcode :
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doi :
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S2CID
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arXiv :
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doi :
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S2CID
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