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Cygnus OB2
Cygnus OB2 is an OB association that is home to some of the most massive and most luminous stars known, including suspected Luminous blue variable Cyg OB2 #12. It also includes one of the largest known stars, NML Cygni. The region is embedded within a wider one of star formation known as Cygnus X, which is one of the most luminous objects in the sky at radio wavelengths. The region is approximately 1,570 parsecs from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The young cluster is one of the largest known and the largest in the northern hemisphere with some authors formerly classifying it as a young globular cluster similar to those in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Today, however, it is considered a massive, low-density stellar association. Although it is over ten times more massive than the Orion Nebula, which is easily seen with the naked eye, Cygnus OB2 is hidden behind a massive dust cloud known as the Cygnus Rift, which obscures many of the stars in it. This means that ...
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IPHAS
The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS) is an astronomical survey of the northern plane of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, as visible from the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) in the Canary Islands, Spain. The survey uses two broad-band filters and a narrow H-alpha filter to obtain deep images of nebulae in our Galaxy and for identifying rare types of stars. Observations for the survey began in 2003 and are almost complete. The survey is being complemented by a sister survey of the southern Galactic Plane, VPHAS+. Once these two surveys are completed the data are expected to provide a significant leap in our knowledge of the extreme phases of stellar evolution. The goals of the survey include: * Identification of rare objects that are often characterized by strong emission in H-Alpha compared to that in broad-band filters. This includes massive OB stars, supergiants, interacting binary stars and supernova progenitors. * Mapping Galactic extinction and nebulosity. * Identifying compact ...
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O Star
An O-type star is a hot, blue-white star of spectral type O in the Yerkes classification system employed by astronomers. They have temperatures in excess of 30,000 kelvin (K). Stars of this type have strong absorption lines of ionised helium, strong lines of other ionised elements, and hydrogen and neutral helium lines weaker than spectral type B. Stars of this type are very rare, but because they are very bright, they can be seen at great distances and four of the 90 brightest stars as seen from Earth are O type.Those four stars are Gamma Velorum, Alnitak (Zeta Orionis), Mintaka (Delta Orionis), and Zeta Puppis. Due to their high mass, O-type stars end their lives rather quickly in violent supernova explosions, resulting in black holes or neutron stars. Most of these stars are young massive main sequence, giant, or supergiant stars, but the central stars of planetary nebulae, old low-mass stars near the end of their lives, also usually have O spectra. O-type stars are typical ...
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Stellar Associations
A stellar association is a very loose star cluster, looser than both open clusters and globular clusters. Stellar associations will normally contain from 10 to 100 or more stars. The stars share a common origin, but have become gravitationally unbound and are still moving together through space. Associations are primarily identified by their common movement vectors and ages. Identification by chemical composition is also used to factor in association memberships. Stellar associations were first discovered by the Soviet Armenian astronomer Victor Ambartsumian in 1947. The conventional name for an association uses the names or abbreviations of the constellation (or constellations) in which they are located; the association type, and, sometimes, a numerical identifier. Types Victor Ambartsumian first categorized stellar associations into two groups, OB and T, based on the properties of their stars. A third category, R, was later suggested by Sidney van den Bergh for associations t ...
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BD+43°3654
BD+43 3654 is a massive luminous blue supergiant runaway star in the constellation Cygnus. Features BD+43 3654 has a spectral type of O4 If with a mass around 65 times larger than the Sun, likely 850,000 times brighter, and very young, with an age that has been estimated to be around 2 million years. Its distance to the Solar System has been estimated to be 1.45 kiloparsecs (4,700 light-years) and it is moving at high speed through the interstellar medium, creating a bow shock. Origin Studies of the trajectory and speed of BD+43 3654 relative to the other stars of the nearby, massive stellar association Cygnus OB2 suggest it is a runaway star, making it one of the most massive runaway stars known in the Milky Way (along with the O-type supergiants Lambda Cephei and Zeta Puppis). Initially it was suggested a supernova explosion of a former binary system companion star caused the high velocity of BD+43 3654. Later research shows that a supernova ejection would not produc ...
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Cygnus OB2-8A
Cygnus OB2 #8A is a double-lined spectroscopic binary located near the centre of the Cygnus OB2 association located 5,500 light years away. Discovery Until 1951 Cyg OB2 #8 had been known only as an anonymous catalogue entry in the Bonner Durchmusterung. Then it was identified as one of several highly luminous hot stars close together in Cygnus. Despite being commonly referred to as Schulte #8A, the number 8 was first published in an earlier paper. Schulte identified the grouping as a massive stellar association and split star #8 into four components, including #8A. System The Cygnus OB2 #8A system contains two massive luminous O class stars in a 21.9 day orbit. The primary is a supergiant and the secondary is a giant star. The two stars are not thought to be exchanging mass and their luminosity classes match the main sequence turnoff The turnoff point for a star refers to the point on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram where it leaves the main sequence after its ...
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BD+40°4210
BD+40°4210 is a hot luminous giant star located in the constellation Cygnus. It is a member of the Cygnus OB2 association and a candidate luminous blue variable. Features BD+40°4210 is heavily reddened and extinguished by the interstellar dust of the Milky Way and little studied. It has turned out to be one of the most luminous stars of the Cygnus OB2 association, with an absolute magnitude of -7.66 and a bolometric luminosity more than 600,000 times that of the Sun. It has been assigned a B1III spectral classification, but with peculiarities including unusually shallow lines and broad emission. Despite the giant luminosity class, the luminosity appears to be extremely high, placing it on or near the S Doradus instability strip occupied by quiescent luminous blue variables. Its brightness varies by less than 0.1 magnitudes on a timescale around 100 days. BD+40°4210 is located at a projected 4.8 parsec The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to mea ...
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MNRAS
''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'' (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in astronomy and astrophysics. It has been in continuous existence since 1827 and publishes letters and papers reporting original research in relevant fields. Despite the name, the journal is no longer monthly, nor does it carry the notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. History The first issue of MNRAS was published on 9 February 1827 as ''Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London'' and it has been in continuous publication ever since. It took its current name from the second volume, after the Astronomical Society of London became the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Until 1960 it carried the monthly notices of the RAS, at which time these were transferred to the newly established ''Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society'' (1960–1996) and then to its successor journal ''Astronomy & Geophysics'' (since 1997). Until 1965, MNRAS was ...
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Centre De Données Astronomiques De Strasbourg
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General Catalogue Of Variable Stars
The General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) is a list of variable stars. Its first edition, containing 10,820 stars, was published in 1948 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and edited by B. V. Kukarkin and P. P. Parenago. Second and third editions were published in 1958 and 1968; the fourth edition, in three volumes, was published 1985–1987. It contained 28,435 stars. A fourth volume of the fourth edition containing reference tables was later published, as well as a fifth volume containing variable stars outside the Galaxy. The last edition (GCVS v5.1) based on data compiled in 2015 gathers 52,011 variable stars. The most up-to-date version of the GCVS is available at the GCVS website. It contains improved coordinates for the variable stars in the printed fourth edition of the GCVS, as well as variable stars discovered too recently to be included in the fourth edition. An older version of the GCVS dating from 2004 is available from the VizieR service at the Ce ...
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WR 147
WR 147 is a multiple star system in the constellation of Cygnus. The system is extremely reddened by interstellar extinction – that is, dust in front of the star scatters much of the blue light coming from WR 147, leaving the star appearing reddish. Distance The distance of WR 147 has been calculated to be based on infrared photometry, which would place it in front of the OB association known as Cygnus OB2. The extinction in the visual range was calculated to be 11.5 magnitudes and the absolute visual magnitude assumed to be −6.7. This would make WR 147 one of the closest known Wolf-Rayet stars, despite its faint apparent magnitude. A later calculation using optical and ultraviolet photometry derived a slightly lower value for the extinction. Combined with an assumption of a brighter absolute magnitude, this gave a distance modulus of 10.6 corresponding to a distance of about 1,200 pc. This is still one of the nearest Wolf–Rayet systems to the sun. A Gaia Data Rel ...
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Gran Telescopio Canarias
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC) is a reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries, Spain. It is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope. Construction of the telescope took seven years and cost €130 million. Its installation was hampered by weather conditions and the logistical difficulties of transporting equipment to such a remote location. First light was achieved in 2007 and scientific observations began in 2009. The GTC Project is a partnership formed by several institutions from Spain and Mexico, the University of Florida, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Planning for the construction of the telescope, which started in 1987, involved more than 1,000 people from 100 companies. The division of telescope time reflects the structure of its financing: 90% Spain, 5% Mexico and 5% the University of Florida. ...
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Herschel Space Observatory
The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a mirror and instruments sensitive to the far infrared and submillimetre wavebands (55–672 µm). Herschel was the fourth and final cornerstone mission in the Horizon 2000 programme, following ''SOHO''/'' Cluster II'', ''XMM-Newton'' and ''Rosetta''. The observatory was carried into orbit by an Ariane 5 in May 2009, reaching the second Lagrangian point (L2) of the Earth–Sun system, from Earth, about two months later. Herschel is named after Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of the infrared spectrum and planet Uranus, and his sister and collaborator Caroline Herschel. The observatory was capable of seeing the coldest and dustiest objects in space; for example, cool cocoons where stars form and ...
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