| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Perseus |
| Right ascension | 2h 22m 24.296s[1] |
| Declination | +57° 06′ 34.10″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 7.82-10.0[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | M4Iab[3] |
| Variable type | SRc[2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −38.0±2[4] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −0.602[1] mas/yr Dec.: −1.107[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 0.3874 ± 0.0450 mas[1] |
| Distance | 4,880+720 −561 ly (1,497+221 −172 pc)[5] |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | −6.18[6] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 12 – 15[7] M☉ |
| Radius | 547+9 −7[5] – 775+110 −85[8] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 59,000[9] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | −0.2±0.05[7] cgs |
| Temperature | 3,470±90[7] K |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
RS Persei is a red supergiant variable star located in the Double Cluster in Perseus. The star's apparent magnitude varies from 7.82 to 10.0, meaning it is never visible to the naked eye.
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- ^ Wilson, Ralph Elmer (1953). "General catalogue of stellar radial velocities". Washington. Bibcode:1953GCRV..C......0W.
- ^ a b Norris, Ryan P. (2019). Seeing Stars Like Never Before: A Long-term Interferometric Imaging Survey of Red Supergiants (PDF) (PhD). Georgia State University.
- ^ Levesque, Emily M.; Massey, Philip; Olsen, K. A. G.; Plez, Bertrand; Josselin, Eric; Maeder, Andre; Meynet, Georges (2005). "The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, but Not As Cool As We Thought". The Astrophysical Journal. 628 (2): 973–985. arXiv:astro-ph/0504337. Bibcode:2005ApJ...628..973L. doi:10.1086/430901. S2CID 15109583.
- ^ a b c Baron, F.; Monnier, J. D.; Kiss, L. L.; Neilson, H. R.; Zhao, M.; Anderson, M.; Aarnio, A.; Pedretti, E.; Thureau, N.; Ten Brummelaar, T. A.; Ridgway, S. T.; McAlister, H. A.; Sturmann, J.; Sturmann, L.; Turner, N. (2014). "CHARA/MIRC Observations of Two M Supergiants in Perseus OB1: Temperature, Bayesian Modeling, and Compressed Sensing Imaging". The Astrophysical Journal. 785 (1): 46. arXiv:1405.4032. Bibcode:2014ApJ...785...46B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/785/1/46. S2CID 17085548.
- ^ Ryan Norris. "Student Science at NMT: Learning Optical Interferometry Through Projects on Evolved Stars" (PDF). CHARA.
- ^ Healy, Sarah; Horiuchi, Shunsaku; Molla, Marta Colomer; Milisavljevic, Dan; Tseng, Jeff; Bergin, Faith; Weil, Kathryn; Tanaka, Masaomi (2024-03-23). "Red Supergiant Candidates for Multimessenger Monitoring of the Next Galactic Supernova". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529 (4): 3630–3650. arXiv:2307.08785. Bibcode:2024MNRAS.529.3630H. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae738. ISSN 0035-8711.