2_Scorpii

2 Scorpii

2 Scorpii

Star in the constellation Scorpius

2 Scorpii (A Scorpii) is a double star in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. The brighter component has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.69, which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while the fainter star is of magnitude 6.98.[2] The distance to this pair can be estimated from the annual parallax shift of 6.49±0.51 mas,[1] which places it roughly 500 light years away. It has a peculiar velocity of 16.5±2.4 km/s and is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of about −9 km/s,[4] which will bring it to a perihelion distance of 450 ly (139 pc) in about 2.9 million years.[5] This is a probable (73% chance) member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux group of the nearby Scorpius–Centaurus association (Sco OB2), or else (27% chance) it is a member of the Gould's Belt.[10]

Quick Facts Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000, Constellation ...

With high likelihood (>95%), this is a binary star system. As of 2014, the pair had an angular separation of 2.061″±0.001″ along a position angle of 268.28°±0.02°.[7] The brighter member, component A, is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B2.5 Vn.[3] The 'n' suffix indicates broad (nebulous) absorption lines due to rapid rotation. It is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 320 km/s, giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is 15% larger than the polar radius.[8] Roughly 30[6] million years old, it has an estimated 6.9[6] times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 457[5] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 20,350 K.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 474 (2): 653–664, arXiv:0708.1752, Bibcode:2007A&A...474..653V, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, S2CID 18759600.
  2. [2]
    Fabricius, C.; et al. (2002), "The Tycho double star catalogue", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 384: 180–189, Bibcode:2002A&A...384..180F, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011822.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T. (August 2013), "Galactic kinematics from a sample of young massive stars", Astronomy Letters, 39 (8): 532–549, arXiv:1307.1677, Bibcode:2013AstL...39..532B, doi:10.1134/S106377371308001X, S2CID 118568203.
  5. [5]
    Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters, 38 (5): 331, arXiv:1108.4971, Bibcode:2012AstL...38..331A, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, S2CID 119257644.
  6. [6]
    Tetzlaff, N.; Neuhäuser, R.; Hohle, M. M. (January 2011), "A catalogue of young runaway Hipparcos stars within 3 kpc from the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410 (1): 190–200, arXiv:1007.4883, Bibcode:2011MNRAS.410..190T, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17434.x, S2CID 118629873.
  7. [7]
    Lafrenière, David; et al. (April 2014), "An Adaptive Optics Multiplicity Census of Young Stars in Upper Scorpius", The Astrophysical Journal, 785 (1): 18, Bibcode:2014ApJ...785...47L, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/785/1/47, 47.
  8. [8]
    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.
  9. [9]
    "2 Sco". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  10. [10]
    Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T. (September 2007), "Kinematics of the Scorpius–Centaurus OB association", Astronomy Letters, 33 (9): 571–583, arXiv:0708.0943, Bibcode:2007AstL...33..571B, doi:10.1134/S1063773707090010, S2CID 15785349.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 2_Scorpii, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.