Star in the constellation Hydra
HD 83953 (I Hydrae ) is a single,[ 9] blue-white hued star in the equatorial constellation of Hydra . It is visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.76.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 6.6 mas ,[ 1] the distance to this star is estimated as 500 light years . It is moving further from Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +16 km/s.[ 4]
This is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B5 V.[ 3] It has been known to be a Be star since 1926, when an Hβ emission line was discovered in the stellar spectrum by Mount Wilson Observatory .[ 10] This energy is coming from a circumstellar envelope of heated gas that has been expelled from the central star and formed a thin orbiting disk.[ 11] HD 83953 is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 315 km/s, giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is 18% larger than the polar radius.[ 7]
HD 83953 has 4.6[ 5] times the mass of the Sun and 4.0[ 6] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 708[ 5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 15,000 K.[ 6]
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^ a b Houk, Nancy; Smith-Moore, M. (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars , vol. 4, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode :1988mcts.book.....H .
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^ a b c d e Arcos, C.; et al. (March 2018), "Stellar parameters and H α line profile variability of Be stars in the BeSOS survey", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 474 (4): 5287– 5299, arXiv :1711.08675 , Bibcode :2018MNRAS.474.5287A , doi :10.1093/mnras/stx3075 .
^ a b Belle, G. T. (2012), "Interferometric observations of rapidly rotating stars", The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review , 20 (1): 51, arXiv :1204.2572 , Bibcode :2012A&ARv..20...51V , doi :10.1007/s00159-012-0051-2 , S2CID 119273474 .
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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, arXiv :0806.2878 , Bibcode :2008MNRAS.389..869E , doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x , S2CID 14878976 .
^ Merrill, Paul W.; Burwell, Cora G. (September 1933), "Catalogue and Bibliography of Stars of Classes B and A whose Spectra have Bright Hydrogen Lines", Astrophysical Journal , 78 : 87, Bibcode :1933ApJ....78...87M , doi :10.1086/143490 .
^ Arcos, C.; et al. (June 2017), "Evidence for Different Disk Mass Distributions Between Early and Late-Type Be Stars in the BeSOS Survey", The Astrophysical Journal , 842 (1): 18, arXiv :1704.08133 , Bibcode :2017ApJ...842...48A , doi :10.3847/1538-4357/aa6f5f , S2CID 119418279 , 48.