4 Cassiopeiae is a red giant in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia,[10] located approximately 790 light-years away from the Sun.[3] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, red-hued star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of 4.96.[4] At the distance of this system, its visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction of 0.56 due to interstellar dust.[11] This system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −39 km/s.[7]
 A light curve for 4 Cassiopeiae, plotted from Hipparcos data.[1] The assumed period is from Koen and Eyer (2002).[2] | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Cassiopeia |
| Right ascension | 23h 24m 50.26237s[3] |
| Declination | +62° 16′ 58.1094″[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 4.96[4] (4.95 – 5.00)[5] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | AGB[6] |
| Spectral type | M2− IIIab[4] |
| B−V color index | 1.676±0.010[4] |
| Variable type | suspected[5] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −38.99±0.23[7] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +12.29[3] mas/yr Dec.: −12.44[3] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 4.15 ± 0.21 mas[3] |
| Distance | 790 ± 40 ly (240 ± 10 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | −1.94[4] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 2.3[8] M☉ |
| Radius | 78[9] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 1,419[9] L☉ |
| Temperature | 4,000[9] K |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
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An evolved red giant star, currently on the asymptotic giant branch,[6] 4 Cassiopeiae has a stellar classification of M2− IIIab.[4] It is a suspected variable star of unknown type with a brightness that varies from visual magnitude 4.95 down to 5.00.[5]
Multiple star catalogues list a number of companions to 4 Cassiopeiae, all unrelated stars at different distances.[12] As of 2011, the magnitude 9.88 component B lay at an angular separation of 96.10″ along a position angle of 226° relative to the primary. Components C, E, F, and G are all fainter and more than two arc-minutes from 4 Cassiopeiae, and components C and G are themselves close doubles.[13]
4 Cassiopeiae is 40' north of the open cluster Messier 52, near the constellation border with Cepheus, although it is not a member of the cluster.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Light Curve", Hipparcos ESA, ESA, retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (March 2002). "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 331 (1): 45–59. arXiv:astro-ph/0112194. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.331...45K. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x. S2CID 10505995.
- ^ a b c d e f van Leeuwen, F. (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 e f Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
- ^ a b c Samus', N. N.; Kazarovets, E. V.; Durlevich, O. V.; Kireeva, N. N.; Pastukhova, E. N. (2017), "General catalogue of variable stars", Astronomy Reports, 5.1, 61 (1): 80, Bibcode:2017ARep...61...80S, doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085, S2CID 125853869.
- ^ a b Eggen, O. J. (1992), "Asymptotic giant branch stars near the sun", The Astronomical Journal, 104: 275, Bibcode:1992AJ....104..275E, doi:10.1086/116239.
- ^ a b Famaey, B.; et al. (2009), "Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants. I. Data, orbits, and intrinsic variations", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 498 (2): 627–640, arXiv:0901.0934, Bibcode:2009A&A...498..627F, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200810698, S2CID 18739721.
- ^ Kervella, Pierre; Arenou, Frédéric; Mignard, François; Thévenin, Frédéric (March 2019). "Stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars from Gaia DR2 - Binarity from proper motion anomaly". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623: 623. arXiv:1811.08902. Bibcode:2019A&A...623A..72K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834371.
- ^ a b c 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 "4 Cas". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ Famaey, B.; et al. (January 2005), "Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data. Revisiting the concept of superclusters", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 430 (1): 165–186, arXiv:astro-ph/0409579, Bibcode:2005A&A...430..165F, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041272, S2CID 17804304.
- ^ Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Baumgardt, H.; Dettbarn, C.; Wielen, R. (2000). "Absolute proper motions of open clusters. I. Observational data". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 146 (2): 251. arXiv:astro-ph/0010306. Bibcode:2000A&AS..146..251B. doi:10.1051/aas:2000362. S2CID 7180188.