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Upsilon Piscium
Location of υ Piscium (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0       Equinox J2000.0 ( ICRS)
Constellation Pisces
Right ascension 01h 19m 27.99289s [1]
Declination +27° 15′ 50.6155″ [1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.752 [2]
Characteristics
Spectral type A3 V [3]
U−B color index +0.10 [2]
B−V color index +0.03 [2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+5.8±2.7 [4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +22.98 [1]  mas/ yr
Dec.: −11.12 [1]  mas/ yr
Parallax (π)10.59 ± 0.25  mas [1]
Distance308 ± 7  ly
(94 ± 2  pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.13 [5]
Details
Mass2.84±0.05 [3]  M
Radius2.2 [6]  R
Luminosity117 [3]  L
Surface gravity (log g)3.59 [7]  cgs
Temperature9,183±312 [7]  K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.00±0.05 [8]  dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)91 [3] km/s
Age461 [7]  Myr
Other designations
υ Psc, 90 Piscium, BD+26° 220, FK5 45, HD 7964, HIP 6193, HR 383, SAO 74637 [9]
Database references
SIMBAD data

Upsilon Piscium is a solitary, [10] white-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +4.75. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.59  mas as seen from Earth, [1] it is located about 308  light years from the Sun. The star is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +6 km/s. [4]

This is an ordinary A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A3 V. [3] It is 461 [7] million years old – about 98% of the way through its main sequence lifetime [3] – and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 91 km/s. [3] The star has 2.8 [3] times the mass of the Sun, about 2.2 [6] times the Sun's radius, and is radiating 117 [3] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9183 K. [7]

Naming

υ Piscium is the Bayer designation for this star, which is Latinized as Upsilon Piscium. It has the Flamsteed designation 90 Piscium. [9]

In Chinese, 奎宿 (Kuí Sù), meaning Legs (asterism), refers to an asterism composed of υ Piscium, η Andromedae, 65 Piscium, ζ Andromedae, ε Andromedae, δ Andromedae, π Andromedae, ν Andromedae, μ Andromedae, β Andromedae, σ Piscium, τ Piscium, 91 Piscium, φ Piscium, χ Piscium and ψ¹ Piscium. Consequently, the Chinese name for υ Piscium itself is 奎宿十三 (Kuí Sù shí sān, English: the Thirteenth Star of Legs.) [11]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Johnson, H. L.; et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 4 (99): 99, Bibcode: 1966CoLPL...4...99J.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Zorec, J.; Royer, F. (January 2012), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars. IV. Evolution of rotational velocities", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 537: A120, arXiv: 1201.2052, Bibcode: 2012A&A...537A.120Z, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117691, S2CID  55586789.
  4. ^ a b de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 546: 14, arXiv: 1208.3048, Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..61D, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, S2CID  59451347, A61.
  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. ^ a b Pasinetti Fracassini, L. E.; et al. (February 2001), "Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS)", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 367 (Third ed.): 521–524, arXiv: astro-ph/0012289, Bibcode: 2001A&A...367..521P, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000451, S2CID  425754.
  7. ^ a b c d e David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal, 804 (2): 146, arXiv: 1501.03154, Bibcode: 2015ApJ...804..146D, doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146, S2CID  33401607.
  8. ^ Morossi, C.; et al. (September 2002), "Metallicity Determinations from Ultraviolet-Visual Spectrophotometry. I. The Test Sample", The Astrophysical Journal, 577 (1): 377–388, Bibcode: 2002ApJ...577..377M, doi: 10.1086/342144.
  9. ^ a b "ups Psc". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 5 月 19 日