Single, evolved giant star in the constellation Virgo
89 Virginis is a single[ 9] star in the zodiac constellation of Virgo , located 234 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.959.[ 2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −39 km/s.[ 1]
This is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III,[ 3] having exhausted the hydrogen at its core and expanded away from the main sequence . It is a red clump star, which indicates it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core.[ 5] This object is 3.4 billion years old with 1.7[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and 12[ 7] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 69 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4706 K.[ 6]
References
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^ a b Mermilliod, J.-C. (1986). "Compilation of Eggen's UBV data, transformed to UBV (unpublished)" . Catalogue of Eggen's UBV Data . Bibcode :1986EgUBV........0M .
^ a b Liu, Y. J.; et al. (2007), "The abundances of nearby red clump giants", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 382 (2): 553– 66, Bibcode :2007MNRAS.382..553L , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11852.x .
^ a b c d e f 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 .
^ a b c d Massarotti, Alessandro; Latham, David W.; Stefanik, Robert P.; Fogel, Jeffrey (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 .
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^ Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (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 .