47 Capricorni is a variable star located around 1,170[2] light years from the Sun in the southern constellation Capricornus,[7] near the northern border with Aquarius. It has the variable star designation of AG Capricorni and a Bayer designation of c2 Capricorni;[8] 47 Capricorni is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked eye as a dim, red-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude that varies between 5.90 and 6.14. The star is receding from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +20 km/s.[6]
In 1963, Alan William James Cousins announced that 47 Capricorni is a variable star.[9] It was given its variable star designation in 1973.[10]
This is an aging red giant star with a stellar classification of M2III.[5] It is a semiregular variable star of subtype SRb with a period of 30.592 days and a maximum brightness of 5.9 magnitude.[4] With the supply of hydrogen at its core exhausted, the star has expanded to around 102[2] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 1,940[2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,784 K.[2]
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- ^ a b Famaey, B.; et al. (2009). "Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants,. I. Data, orbits, and intrinsic variations". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 498 (2): 627. arXiv:0901.0934. Bibcode:2009A&A...498..627F. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200810698. S2CID 18739721.
- ^ a b "47 Cap". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ Kostjuk, N. D. (2002). "HD 207005". HD-DM-GC-HR-HIP-Bayer-Flamsteed Cross Index. Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences; CDS. IV/27A
- ^ Cousins, A. W. J. (1963). "Photometric Data for Stars in the Equatorial Zone (Third List)". Monthly Notes of the Astron. Soc. Southern Africa. 22: 12. Bibcode:1963MNSSA..22...12C. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ Kukarkin, B. V.; Kholopov, P. N.; Kukarkina, N. P.; Perova, N. B. (October 1973). "59th Name-List of Variable Stars" (PDF). Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. 834. Bibcode:1973IBVS..834....1K. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
