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Delta Piscium

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Delta Piscium
Location of δ Piscium (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation Pisces
Right ascension 00h 48m 40.9443s[1]
Declination +07° 35′ 06.2949″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +4.416[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K4 IIIb[3]
U−B color index +1.831[2]
B−V color index +1.500[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+32.45±0.18[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +81.994 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: −50.232 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)10.8577 ± 0.1787 mas[1]
Distance300 ± 5 ly
(92 ± 2 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.46[5]
Details
Mass1.65[3] M
Radius38.01+0.71
−0.73
[6] R
Luminosity291.7±13.3[6] L
Surface gravity (log g)1.88[1] cgs
Temperature3868±35[6] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.19[1] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)5.5[4] km/s
Age2.98[3] Gyr
Other designations
δ Psc, 63 Piscium, BD+06° 107, FK5 28, HD 4656, HIP 3786, HR 224, SAO 109474, WDS J00487+0735A[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Delta Piscium (δ Piscium) is a solitary,[8] orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +4.4,[2] so it is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.86 mas, it is around 300 light-years (92 parsecs) from the Sun.[1] The visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an interstellar absorption factor of 0.08 due to interstellar dust.[9]

This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K4 IIIb.[3] It has around 1.65 times the mass of the Sun and, at the age of three billion years,[3] has expanded to 38[6] times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 292 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,868 K.[6]

Because Delta Piscium is positioned near the ecliptic, so it is subject to lunar occultations.[10] It has a magnitude 13.99 visual companion at an angular separation of 135.0 arc seconds on a position angle of 12°, as of 2011.[11]

Naming

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In Chinese, 外屏 (Wài Píng), meaning Outer Fence, refers to an asterism of stars, δ Piscium, ε Piscium, ζ Piscium, μ Piscium, ν Piscium, ξ Piscium and α Piscium. Consequently, the Chinese name for δ Piscium itself is 外屏一 (Wài Píng yī, English: the First Star of Outer Fence.)[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ^ a b c d Cousins, A. W. J. (1984), "Standardisation of broad band photometry of equatorial standards", South Africa Astronomical Observatory Circular, 8: 59–67, Bibcode:1984SAAOC...8...59C.
  3. ^ a b c d e Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", The Astronomical Journal, 150 (3): 88, arXiv:1507.01466, Bibcode:2015AJ....150...88L, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88, S2CID 118505114.
  4. ^ a b Massarotti, Alessandro; et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and radial velocities for a sample of 761 HIPPARCOS giants and the role of binarity", The Astronomical Journal, 135 (1): 209–231, Bibcode:2008AJ....135..209M, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d e Baines, Ellyn K.; Thomas Armstrong, J.; Clark, James H.; Gorney, Jim; Hutter, Donald J.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Kyte, Casey; Mozurkewich, David; Nisley, Ishara; Sanborn, Jason; Schmitt, Henrique R. (November 2021). "Angular Diameters and Fundamental Parameters of Forty-four Stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer". The Astronomical Journal. 162 (5): 198. arXiv:2211.09030. Bibcode:2021AJ....162..198B. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac2431. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 238998021.
  7. ^ "del Psc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2017-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Famaey, B.; et al. (2005), "Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data. Revisiting the concept of superclusters", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 430: 165–186, arXiv:astro-ph/0409579, Bibcode:2005A&A...430..165F, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041272, S2CID 17804304.
  10. ^ Meyer, C.; et al. (1995), "Observations of lunar occultations at Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, 110: 107, Bibcode:1995A&AS..110..107M.
  11. ^ Mason, B. D.; et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal, 122 (6): 3466–3471, Bibcode:2001AJ....122.3466M, doi:10.1086/323920, retrieved 2015-07-22
  12. ^ (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 5 月 19 日
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