Star in the constellation Hercules
Xi Herculis is a solitary[ 11] Hercules . The star is visible to thenaked eye with anapparent visual magnitude of 3.70.[ 2] parallax shift of 23.85 mas as seen from Earth, it is located 137 light years from theSun .[ 1] extinction factor of 0.05 due tointerstellar dust . It is a suspected member of theSirius stream of co-moving stars.[ 12]
Alight curve for Xi Herculis, plotted fromHipparcos data[ 13] This is anevolved G-type giant star with astellar classification of G8 III.[ 3] red clump star, which means it is on thehorizontal branch and generating energy through thethermonuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. The star is emittingX-rays with aluminosity of× 1030 erg s−1 [ 9] [ 6] mass of the Sun but, at the age of two and a half billion years,[ 6] Sun's radius . The star is radiating 57 times thesolar luminosity from itsphotosphere at aneffective temperature of 5,032 K.[ 7]
Xi Herculis was discovered to be avariable star when theHipparcos [ 14] semiregular variable star , oscillating in brightness by 3 hundredths of a magnitude, over a period of 120.8 days.[ 15]
In R.H.Allen's bookStar Names: Their Lore and Meaning , this star, together withν Her and99 Her (b Herculis) represent the state ofZhongshan (or Chung Shan' "the Middle Mountain"),[ 16] ο Her .[ 17]
[ edit ] One third of a degree to the north-northwest of Xi Herculis is the location of a telescopic asterism in the shape of a teapot. This teapot (Markov 1) could be seen as a somewhattwisted small equivalent of the large and easy to recognize teapot asterism in the constellationSagittarius .
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