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HD 32034

HD 32034 is one of seven blue hypergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is suspected to be a shell star. It lies within the loose association of stars designated NGC 1747, although it is uncertain whether it is a member.

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HD 32034
Picture of HD 32034 (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Dorado1
Right ascension 04h 55m 11.08594s2
Declination −67° 10′ 10.4091″2
Apparent magnitude (V) 9.7153
Characteristics
Spectral type B9Iae4
U−B color index −0.675
B−V color index +0.105
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)31213±0.082 km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +1.6332 mas/yr
Dec.: −0.0222 mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.0042±0.0131 mas2
Absolute magnitude (MV)−9.775
Details
Mass585 M☉
Radius2855 R☉
Luminosity310,0006 L☉
Surface gravity (log g)1.295 cgs
Temperature9,7972 K
Age15 Myr
Other designations
RMC 62, R 62, HD 32034, GSC 08889-00589, ALS 15895, GV 80, CPD−67°364, LHA 120-S 7, 2MASS J04551106-67101047
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 32034 (or R 62) is one of seven blue hypergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is suspected to be a shell star.58 It lies within the loose association of stars designated NGC 1747, although it is uncertain whether it is a member.5

References

References

  1. Roman, Nancy G. (1987). "Identification of a constellation from a position". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 99 (617): 695. Bibcode:1987PASP...99..695R. doi:10.1086/132034. Constellation record for this object at VizieR.
  2. 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.
  3. Høg, E.; et al. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27–L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H.
  4. Oey, M. S. (1996). "Stellar Content of Superbubble H II Regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud". The Astrophysical Journal. 465: 231. Bibcode:1996ApJ...465..231O. doi:10.1086/177415.
  5. Przybylski, Andrew K. (1 April 1971). "The analysis of the spectrum of the Large Magellanic Cloud supergiant HD 32034". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 152 (2): 197–208. Bibcode:1971MNRAS.152..197P. doi:10.1093/mnras/152.2.197.
  6. Kathryn F. Neugent; Philip Massey; Brian Skiff; Georges Meynet (April 2012). "Yellow and Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds". Astrophysical Journal. 749 (2): 177. arXiv:1202.4225. Bibcode:2012ApJ...749..177N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/749/2/177. S2CID 119180846.
  7. "HD 32034". SIMBAD. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  8. United States Naval Observatory (28 August 2016). Publications of the United States Naval Observatory (2 ed.). Wentworth Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-372-34130-4.