Zeta1_Muscae

Zeta<sup>1</sup> Muscae

Zeta1 Muscae

Star in the constellation Musca

For other star systems with this Bayer designation see ζ Muscae

Zeta1 Muscae, Latinized from ζ1 Muscae and abbreviated ζ1 Mus, is a suspected astrometric binary[5] star system in the constellation Musca, located 2.6° west of Beta Muscae.[6] It is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.73,[2] forming a visual pair with nearby Zeta2 Muscae.[6] The ζ1 Mus system is around 417 light-years distant from the Sun, based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +21 km/s.[2]

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The suspected astrometric component of the ζ1 Mus system was identified from acceleration behavior in the proper motion of the main star.[7] The visible component is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K0III;[4] a star that has used up its core hydrogen and is cooling and expanding. It now has 15[1] times the girth of the Sun and is radiating 98.5[1] times the Sun's luminosity from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,737 K.[1]

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    Houk, Nancy (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, vol. 1, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1975mcts.book.....H.
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    Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 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.
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    Streicher, M. (April 2006), "Musca, the Heavenly Fly", Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, 65 (3 and 4): 56–59, Bibcode:2006MNSSA..65...56S.
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    Makarov, V. V.; Kaplan, G. H. (May 2005), "Statistical Constraints for Astrometric Binaries with Nonlinear Motion", The Astronomical Journal, 129 (5): 2420–2427, Bibcode:2005AJ....129.2420M, doi:10.1086/429590.
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