Star in the constellation Aquila
HR 7135 is a binary star system. Despite its Flamsteed designation of 62 Serpentis , the star can be found in the equatorial constellation of Aquila ,[ 10] in front of a dark rift in the Milky Way near the constellation border.[ 5] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.57.[ 2] The system is located 283 light years distant from the Sun, based on parallax ,[ 1] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 23 km/s.[ 5]
Discovery of the binary nature of this system is credited to Canadian astronomer H. H. Plaskett in 1922. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 8.2 years and an eccentricity of 0.24.[ 5] [ 6] The visible component is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G9 III,[ 3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core and expanded to 10.7[ 1] times the Sun's radius . It is a red clump giant, indicating it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy via core helium fusion .[ 11] The star is 3.2[ 7] billion years old with 1.54[ 7] times the mass of the Sun . It is radiating 53[ 1] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,666 K.[ 7] The star has a very low rate of spin, with the projected rotational velocity being too small to measure.[ 8]
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^ a b c d Massarotti, Alessandro; et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 HIPPARCOS Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal , 135 (1): 209– 231, Bibcode :2008AJ....135..209M , doi :10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209 .
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^ Alves, David R. (August 2000), "K-Band Calibration of the Red Clump Luminosity", The Astrophysical Journal , 539 (2): 732– 741, arXiv :astro-ph/0003329 , Bibcode :2000ApJ...539..732A , doi :10.1086/309278 , S2CID 16673121 .