Star in the constellation Carina
RT Carinae, also known as CD-58 3538 , is a red supergiant and a variable star , located 7,000 light years away in the constellation Carina . It is in the Carina Nebula . The average apparent magnitude of +8.55, too faint to be visible to the naked eye .
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Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
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^ a b Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Rybizki, J.; Fouesneau, M.; Demleitner, M.; Andrae, R. (2021-03-01). "Estimating distances from parallaxes. V: Geometric and photogeometric distances to 1.47 billion stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3" . The Astronomical Journal . 161 (3): 147. arXiv :2012.05220 . Bibcode :2021AJ....161..147B . doi :10.3847/1538-3881/abd806 . ISSN 0004-6256 . Data about this star can be seen here .
^ a b 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 .
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