3 Ceti
Star in the constellation Cetus
3 Ceti is a single,[ 11] orange-hued star located around 2,100 light years away[ 12] in the equatorial constellation of Cetus . It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.95.[ 2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −42 km/s.[ 5] It has a peculiar velocity of 60.7+3.8 −6.2 km/s and is a candidate runaway star .[ 6]
This is a red supergiant star with a stellar classification of K3 Ib,[ 4] although Houk and Swift (1999) classed it as a normal giant at K3 III.[ 3] It displays microvariability, undergoing changes in brightness with a frequency of 11.2 times per day and an amplitude of 0.0053 in magnitude.[ 4] The star is about 30 million years old with nine times the mass of the Sun [ 6] and 182 times the radius of the Sun . It is radiating 7,877[ 7] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,152 K.[ 8]
It is a possible supernova candidate.[ 12]
References
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^ a b Houk, N.; Swift, C. (1999). "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD Stars". Michigan Spectral Survey . 5 . Bibcode :1999MSS...C05....0H .
^ a b c Koen, Chris; Eyer, Laurent (2002). "New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 331 (1): 45. arXiv :astro-ph/0112194 . Bibcode :2002MNRAS.331...45K . doi :10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x .
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^ a b c Healy, Sarah; Horiuchi, Shunsaku; Colomer Molla, Marta; Milisavljevic, Dan; Tseng, Jeff; Bergin, Faith; Weil, Kathryn; Tanaka, Masaomi; Otero, Sebastián (2024-04-01). "Red supergiant candidates for multimessenger monitoring of the next Galactic supernova" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 529 (4): 3630–3650. arXiv :2307.08785 . Bibcode :2024MNRAS.529.3630H . doi :10.1093/mnras/stae738 . ISSN 0035-8711 .
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^ a b Asakura, K.; Gando, A.; Gando, Y.; Hachiya, T.; Hayashida, S.; Ikeda, H.; Inoue, K.; Ishidoshiro, K.; Ishikawa, T. (2015-06-03). "KamLAND SENSITIVITY TO NEUTRINOS FROM PRE-SUPERNOVA STARS" . The Astrophysical Journal . 818 : 91. arXiv :1506.01175v4 . doi :10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/91 .