| dist_pc = 3,500
| dist_ly = ~9,000[4]
| absmag_v = -7.57 (variable)[5]
}}{{Starbox detail
| mass=
| radius=689[12]-1,520[5]
| luminosity=76,000[6] - 369,000[5]
| temperature=3,650[5]
| metal=
| gravity=−0.5[5]
| rotation=
| age=
}}{{Starbox catalog
| names=V354 Cep, Case 75, 2MASS J22333464+5853470, IRAS 22317+5838
}}{{Starbox reference
| Simbad=V354+Cep
}}{{Starbox end}}V354 Cephei is a red supergiant star located within the Milky Way. It is an irregular variable located approximately 9,000 light-years away from the Sun, and is currently considered one of the largest known stars and one of most luminous of its type. It has an estimated radius of between {{convert|689 and 1520|solar radius|km au|lk=on}}. If it were placed in the center of the Solar System, it would extend to between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.
Identification
V354 Cephei is now clearly identified as a red supergiant variable star and included on surveys such as IRAS and 2MASS, but prior to its inclusion in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars in 1981, it was referred to only by its listings on relatively obscure catalogs.[7] It is too faint to be included in catalogs such as the Henry Draper Catalogue or Bonner Durchmusterung. It was included on a 1947 Dearborn Observatory survey as star 41575, but that ID is hardly ever used.[8]
V354 Cep has frequently been referred to as Case 75.[5][7] This is from one of several listings of cool stars made using the Burrell Schmidt telescope at the Warner and Swasey Observatory of Case Western Reserve University, although Case 75 is mistakenly identified as the nearby F3V star BD+58°2450.[9]
Distance
The Gaia Data Release 2 parallax for V354 Cep is {{val|0.4581|0.1023|ul=mas}}.[ It is near the Cepheus OB1 stellar association and considered a likely member. This association is at a distance of approximately 3,500 parsecs.[10]]
Properties
The luminosity, and hence the size, of V354 Cep are disputed. Levesque et al. 2005, find a high luminosity of {{solar luminosity|369,000}} and consequently very large size of {{solar radius|1,520}} based on the assumption of an effective temperature of 3,650 K. From the same data, Mauron et al. 2011 derive a much smaller luminosity of {{solar luminosity|76,000}}, which implies a much smaller size around {{solar radius|689}}. They note the discrepancy but are unable to explain it.[6]
There are similar differences in the visual extinctions derived, between two and six magnitudes.[3][5]
See also
- List of most luminous stars
- VY Canis Majoris
- WOH G64
- VV Cephei A
- Mu Cephei
{{clear}} References
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2. ^1 V354 Cep, database entry, The combined table of GCVS Vols I-III and NL 67-78 with improved coordinates, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia. Accessed on line November 12, 2010.
3. ^1 {{cite journal|bibcode=2009A&A...498..127V|arxiv=0901.1262|title=The dust condensation sequence in red supergiant stars|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=498|pages=127|author1=Verhoelst|first1=T.|last2=Van Der Zypen|first2=N.|last3=Hony|first3=S.|last4=Decin|first4=L.|last5=Cami|first5=J.|last6=Eriksson|first6=K.|date=2009|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/20079063}}
4. ^V354 Cephei is in the Cep OB1 association, which has an adopted estimated distance modulus of 12.2. See Tables 1 and 2, Levesque et al. 2005.
5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite journal |title=The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, but Not As Cool As We Thought |author1-link=Emily Levesque|last1=Levesque|first1=Emily M.|last2=Massey|first2=Philip|last3=Olsen|first3=K. A. G.|first4=Bertrand|last4=Plez|first5=Eric|last5=Josselin|first6=Andre|last6=Maeder|first7=Georges|last7=Meynet |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=628 |issue=2 |date=August 2005 |pages=973–985 |doi=10.1086/430901 |bibcode=2005ApJ...628..973L|arxiv = astro-ph/0504337 }}
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