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41 Cygni is a single[9] star in the northern constellation of Cygnus, located near the southern border with Vulpecula. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.02.[2] The star lies at a distance of around 770 light years from the Sun, based on parallax, and is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −18 km/s.[4]

This is a sharp-lined supergiant star[10] with a stellar classification of F5Ib-II.[3] It is 85[6] million years old with 5.3[6] times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 9.5 km/s.[3] Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, the star has expanded to 27[7] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating about 1,200[7] times the Sun's luminosity from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,533 K.[7]

References

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  2. ^ a b c Luck, R. Earle (2014). "Parameters and Abundances in Luminous Stars". The Astronomical Journal. 147 (6): 137. Bibcode:2014AJ....147..137L. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/147/6/137.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Gray, R. O.; et al. (April 2001), "The Physical Basis of Luminosity Classification in the Late A-, F-, and Early G-Type Stars. I. Precise Spectral Types for 372 Stars", The Astronomical Journal, 121 (4): 2148–2158, Bibcode:2001AJ....121.2148G, doi:10.1086/319956
  4. ^ a b Gontcharov, G. A. (2006). "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system". Astronomy Letters. 32 (11): 759–771. arXiv:1606.08053. Bibcode:2006AstL...32..759G. doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065. S2CID 119231169.
  5. ^ Kovtyukh, V. V.; et al. (2012). "Accurate luminosities from the oxygen λ7771-4 Å triplet and the fundamental parameters of F-G supergiants". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423 (4): 3268. arXiv:1204.4115. Bibcode:2012MNRAS.423.3268K. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21117.x. S2CID 118683158.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Lyubimkov, Leonid S.; et al. (2010). "Accurate fundamental parameters for A-, F- and G-type Supergiants in the solar neighbourhood". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 402 (2): 1369. arXiv:0911.1335. Bibcode:2010MNRAS.402.1369L. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15979.x. S2CID 119096173.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  8. ^ "41 Cyg". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Adelman, S. J.; et al. (January 2008). "Elemental abundance analyses with DAO spectrograms: XXXI. The early F supergiants ν Her (F2 II) and 41 Cyg (F5 Ib-II)". Astronomische Nachrichten. 329 (1): 26–38. Bibcode:2008AN....329....4A. doi:10.1002/asna.200710863.
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