NML Cygni
NML Cygni or V1489 Cygni is a red hypergiant star.[1] It is possibly the largest star known, with a radius up to 2,800 times larger than the Sun's.[2] It is one of the brightest supergiant stars.[3] It was discovered in 1965, by Gerry Neugebauer, D.M. Martz and Robert Leighton.[4] The name 'NML' comes from the names of the three discoverers.[5]
NML Cygni's distance from Earth is about 5,250 light-years.[3] This star has dust surrounding it. It has a bean-shaped asymmetric nebula with water vapour.[6] It is a semiregular variable star. This means its brightness changes over 940 days.[7]
This star is a part of the Cygnus OB2 association, which is 1.74 ± 0.2 kpc away. This is one of the nearest massive star groups to the Sun.[7] This group includes some of the most massive and brightest stars known, including the suspected luminous blue variable Cyg OB2 #12. NML Cygni has lots of oxygen.[8] Molecules like H2O, Silicon monoxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monosulfide, sulfur monoxide, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide are also in the star.[4]
NML Cygni has two dense outer layers of dust and molecules. The star is also losing mass by slowly throwing gas into space.[4] The dust envelopes are formed by this process.[7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Zhang, B.; Reid, M. J.; Menten, K. M.; Zheng, X. W.; Brunthaler, A. (2012). "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 544 (A42): A42. arXiv:1207.1850. Bibcode:2012A&A...544A..42Z. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219587. S2CID 55509287.
- ↑ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac168a
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schuster M.T. (2007). Investigating the circumstellar environments of the cool hypergiants. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-549-32782-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Marvel, Kevin (1996). "NML Cygni". The circumstellar environment of evolved stars as revealed by studies of circumstellar water masers. Universal-Publishers. pp. 182–212. ISBN 978-1-58112-061-5. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ↑ Hearnshaw J.B. (1996). "New infrared sources and their interpretation". The measurement of starlight: two centuries of astronomical photometry. Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-40393-1. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ↑ Schuster M.T; Humphreys R.M. & Marengo M. 2006. The circumstellar environments of NML Cygni and the cool hypergiants. The Astronomical Journal 131, 603. [1]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Schuster M.T. et al 2009. Imaging the cool hypergiant NML Cygni's dusty circumstellar envelope with adaptive optics. Astrophysical Journal 699 (2): 1423. [2]
- ↑ "Combined array for research in millimeter-wave astronomy" (PDF). Retrieved August 27, 2012.