93 Herculis
Star in the constellation Hercules
93 Herculis is a star located around 750[ 1] light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Hercules .[ 6] It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.67[ 2] The brightness of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.21 due to interstellar dust .[ 7] It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −24.5 km/s.[ 4] This star, together with 95 Her , 102 Her , and 109 Her , made up the obsolete constellation Cerberus .[ 8]
This object has a stellar classification of K0.5IIb,[ 3] which indicates it is an evolved bright giant . With the supply of hydrogen at its core exhausted, the star has expanded to 51[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating around 919[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,471 K.[ 1] It is generally deficient in metal elements , but appears weakly enhanced in barium and other heavier elements.[ 5] This is a suspected barium star and hence may have a white dwarf companion in orbit.[ 9]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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 c d 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 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 71 : 245, Bibcode :1989ApJS...71..245K , doi :10.1086/191373 .
^ a b de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics , 546 : 14, arXiv :1208.3048 , Bibcode :2012A&A...546A..61D , doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201219219 , S2CID 59451347 , A61.
^ a b c Smith, G. R.; Harmer, D. L. (January 1982), "A differential curve-of-growth analysis of the candidate barium star 93 Her", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 198 : 273–280, Bibcode :1982MNRAS.198..273S , doi :10.1093/mnras/198.1.273 .
^ a b "93 Her" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2019-06-16 .
^ 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 .
^ Ridpath, Ian, Ian Ridpath's Star Tales - Cerberus , retrieved 2019-06-16 .
^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 389 (2): 869–879, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .