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BU Crucis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Crux
BU Crucis
A Snapshot of the Jewel Box cluster with the ESO VLT.jpg
The star cluster NGC 4755. BU Crucis is the bright blue star just above and to the right of the centre.
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Crux
Right ascension  12h 53m 37.62181s[1]
Declination −60° 21′ 25.3912″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 6.80 - 6.90[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type B2 Ia[3]
U−B color index −0.67[4]
B−V color index +0.20[4]
Variable type Eclipsing?[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−17.00[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −4.643[6] mas/yr
Dec.: −1.050[6] mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.4441 ± 0.0330[6] mas
Distance7,300 ± 500 ly
(2,300 ± 200 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−7.00[3]
Details
Mass29.2[3] M☉
Radius41.6[3] R☉
Luminosity275,000[3] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)2.65[3] cgs
Temperature20,600[3] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)75[7] km/s
Age5.6[3] Myr
Other designations
BU Cru, CD−59°4458, HD 111934, HIP 62913, 2MASS J12533761-6021254
Database references
SIMBADdata

BU Crucis (HD 111934) is a variable star in the open cluster NGC 4755, which is also known as the Kappa Crucis Cluster or Jewel Box Cluster.

Location

NGC 4755 to the SE of β Crucis (Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin)

BU Cru is one of the brightest members of the NGC 4775 open cluster, better known as the Jewel Box Cluster.[8] It forms the right end of the bar of the prominent letter "A" asterism at the centre of the cluster. The cluster is part of the larger Centaurus OB1 association and lies about 8,500 light years away.

The cluster, and BU Crucis itself, is just to the south-east of β Crucis, the lefthand star of the famous Southern Cross.

Properties

BU Crucis is a B2 bright supergiant (luminosity class Ia). It is 275,000 times the luminosity of the sun, partly due to its higher temperature over 20,000 K, and partly to being forty times larger than the sun. The κ Crucis cluster has a calculated age of 11.2 million years, and BU Crucis itself around five million years.[3]

Variability

A light curve for BU Crucis, adapted from Lefèvre et al. (2009)[9]

BU Crucis is a variable star with a brightness range of about 0.1 magnitudes. It is listed as a probable eclipsing binary in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars,[2] but the International Variable Star Index classifies it as an α Cygni variable with a visual magnitude range of 6.82 - 7.01.[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 van Leeuwen, F. (November 2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction", Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357, Bibcode: 2007A&A...474..653V. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Samus, N. N. et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S 1. Bibcode: 2009yCat....102025S. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Aidelman, Y.; Cidale, L. S.; Zorec, J.; Arias, M. L. (2012). "Open clusters. I. Fundamental parameters of B stars in NGC 3766 and NGC 4755". Astronomy & Astrophysics 544: A64. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219069. Bibcode: 2012A&A...544A..64A. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dachs, J.; Kaiser, D. (November 1984), "UBV photometry of the southern galactic cluster NGC 4755 = Kappa Crucis", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 58: 411–429, Bibcode: 1984A&AS...58..411D. 
  5. ↑ Kharchenko, N. V.; Scholz, R.-D.; Piskunov, A. E.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E. (2007). "Astrophysical supplements to the ASCC-2.5: Ia. Radial velocities of ˜55000 stars and mean radial velocities of 516 Galactic open clusters and associations". Astronomische Nachrichten 328 (9): 889–896. doi:10.1002/asna.200710776. Bibcode: 2007AN....328..889K. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  7. ↑ Dufton, P. L. et al. (2006), "The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: Stellar parameters and rotational velocities in NGC 3293, NGC 4755 and NGC 6611", Astronomy and Astrophysics 457 (1): 265–280, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065392, Bibcode: 2006A&A...457..265D. 
  8. ↑ Kharchenko, N. V.; Piskunov, A. E.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E.; Scholz, R.-D. (2004). "Astrophysical supplements to the ASCC-2.5. II. Membership probabilities in 520 Galactic open cluster sky areas". Astronomische Nachrichten 325 (9): 740–748. doi:10.1002/asna.200410256. Bibcode: 2004AN....325..740K. 
  9. ↑ Lefèvre, L.; Marchenko, S. V.; Moffat, A. F. J.; Acker, A. (November 2009). "A systematic study of variability among OB-stars based on HIPPARCOS photometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics 507 (2): 1141–1201. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912304. Bibcode: 2009A&A...507.1141L. https://hal.science/hal-03742152/file/aa12304-09.pdf. 
  10. ↑ "BU Crucis". International Variable Star Index. American Association of Variable Star Observers. 4 January 2010. https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=10866. Retrieved 2016-09-30. 

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