V1936 Aquilae is a blue supergiant and candidate Luminous blue variable located in the nebula Westerhout 51, in the constellation Aquila, about 20,000 light years away. The star was originally identified as a massive star in 2000,[3] and was thought to be an O-type supergiant. However, subsequent analyses have shown it to be not O but B-type,[5] as well as being possibly an LBV.[4]
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Aquila |
| Right ascension | 19h 23m 47.64119s[2] |
| Declination | 14° 36′ 39.0612″[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 15.1 |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | Blue supergiant |
| Spectral type | O4I[3] |
| Variable type | cLBV[4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +6.500[2] mas/yr Dec.: −55.796[2] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 0.1462 ± 0.0.598 mas[2] |
| Distance | 6,000[5] pc |
| Details | |
| Mass | 25[5] M☉ |
| Radius | 48 - 145[6] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 562,000[5] L☉ |
| Temperature | 13,213[5] K |
| Age | 2.3 (3-6)[7] Myr |
| Other designations | |
LS1, 2MASS J19234764+1436391 | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Properties
editV1936 Aquilae is a very luminous star. Recent measurements hint at a bolometric luminosity of around 560,000 L☉, assuming a distance of 6 kiloparsecs, consistent with the distance of Westerhout 51, the very large H II region (nebula) it is located in. The star likely has a temperature of around 13,200 K.[5] The Stefan-Boltzmann Law suggests a radius of around 143 times that of the Sun.
References
edit- ^ "ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database". ASAS-SN Variable Stars Database. ASAS-SN. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ a b Okumura, Shin-ichiro; Mori, Atsushi; Nishihara, Eiji; Watanabe, Etsuji; Yamashita, Takuya (2000-11-01). "The Initial Mass Function of a Massive Star-forming Region W51". The Astrophysical Journal. 543 (2): 799–821. Bibcode:2000ApJ...543..799O. doi:10.1086/317116. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 120384418.
- ^ a b Smith, Nathan; Aghakhanloo, Mojgan; Murphy, Jeremiah W.; Drout, Maria R.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Groh, Jose H. (2019-09-01). "On the Gaia DR2 distances for Galactic luminous blue variables". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488 (2): 1760–1778. arXiv:1805.03298. Bibcode:2019MNRAS.488.1760S. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1712. ISSN 0035-8711.
- ^ a b c d e f Bik, A.; Henning, Th.; Wu, S. -W.; Zhang, M.; Brandner, W.; Pasquali, A.; Stolte, A. (2019-04-01). "Near-infrared spectroscopy of the massive stellar population of W51: evidence for multi-seeded star formation". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 624: A63. arXiv:1902.05460. Bibcode:2019A&A...624A..63B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935061. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 118711844.
- ^ Clark, J. S.; Davies, B.; Najarro, F.; MacKenty, J.; Crowther, P. A.; Messineo, M.; Thompson, M. A. (2009). "The P Cygni supergiant [OMN2000] LS1 - implications for the star formation history of W51". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 504 (2): 429. arXiv:0909.3934. Bibcode:2009A&A...504..429C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200911980. S2CID 2609634.
- ^ Lim, Wanggi; De Buizer, James M. (2019). "Surveying the Giant H II Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. I. W51A". The Astrophysical Journal. 873 (1): 51. arXiv:1901.07561. Bibcode:2019ApJ...873...51L. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab0288.