59 Aurigae

{{short description|Star in the constellation Auriga}}

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| caption = Four visual band light curves for 59 Aurigae, adapted from Zhiping (2000)

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| epoch=J2000

| ra={{RA|06|53|01.41099}}{{cite DR2|944319036145358208}}

| dec= {{DEC|+38|52|08.9353}}

| appmag_v=6.099{{cite journal|title=The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars|author=Høg, E.|display-authors=etal|date=2000|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=355|pages=L27–L30|bibcode=2000A&A...355L..27H}}

| constell=Auriga }}

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| class=F2V{{cite journal|bibcode=1995ApJS...99..135A|title=The Relation between Rotational Velocities and Spectral Peculiarities among A-Type Stars|journal=Astrophysical Journal Supplement |volume=99|pages=135|last1=Abt|first1=Helmut A.|last2=Morrell|first2=Nidia I.|year=1995|doi=10.1086/192182|doi-access=free}}

| r-i =

| v-r =

| b-v = +0.38{{cite journal|author1=Mermilliod, J.-C.|title=Compilation of Eggen's UBV data, transformed to UBV (unpublished)|journal=Catalogue of Eggen's UBV Data|date=1986|bibcode= 1986EgUBV........0M}}

| u-b = +0.14

| variable=δ Sct

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| radial_v={{Val|1.0|4.3}}{{cite journal|title=Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system|author=Gontcharov, G. A.|date=2006|journal=Astronomy Letters|volume=32|issue=11|pages=759–771|bibcode=2006AstL...32..759G|doi=10.1134/S1063773706110065|arxiv=1606.08053|s2cid=119231169}}

| prop_mo_ra=−3.935

| prop_mo_dec=6.454

| parallax=6.7493

| p_error=0.0501

| parallax_footnote=

| absmag_v={{Val|0.23|0.12}}{{cite journal|title=The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood. Ages, metallicities, and kinematic properties of ˜14 000 F and G dwarfs|author=Nordström, B.|display-authors=etal|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=418|pages=989–1019|date=2004|bibcode=2004A&A...418..989N|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20035959|arxiv=astro-ph/0405198|s2cid=11027621}}

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| mass={{Val|2.49|0.08}}

| radius={{Val|5.73|0.29|0.26}}

| luminosity={{Val|63.87|0.65}}

| temperature=6,808

| metal_fe=0.18

| gravity=

| rotational_velocity=165{{cite journal | title=Rotational velocities of A-type stars. IV. Evolution of rotational velocities | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics | volume=537 | pages=A120 | id=A120 | year=2012 | last1=Zorec | first1=J. | last2=Royer | first2=F. | doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201117691 | bibcode=2012A&A...537A.120Z | arxiv=1201.2052 | s2cid=55586789 }}

| age_myr={{Val|700|100}}

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{{Starbox catalog

| names={{odlist | V=OX Aur | F=59 Aur | GC=8993 | HR=2539 | TYC=2942-2005-1 | ADS=5534 | GSC=02942-02005 | BD=+39°1771 | HD=50018 | PPM=72197 | CCDM=J06530+3852 | SAO=59571 | HIP=33041 | WDS=J06530+3852}} }}

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| Simbad=59+Aur

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59 Aurigae, often abbreviated as 59 Aur, is a star in the constellation Auriga. Its baseline apparent magnitude is 6.1, meaning it can just barely be seen with the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star. Based on parallax measurements, it is located about {{Convert|483|ly|pc|abbr=off|lk=on}} away from the Sun.

In 1966, Ivan John Danziger and Robert John Dickens discovered that 59 Aurigae star is a variable star. This object is a Delta Scuti variable, meaning it varies in luminosity due to pulsations on its surface, ranging in magnitude from 5.94 down to 6.14 with a period of {{Convert|0.154412|days|hours|sigfig=2}}.{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Samus | first1=N. N. | last2=Kazarovets | first2=E. V. | last3=Durlevich | first3=O. V. | last4=Kireeva | first4=N. N. | last5=Pastukhova | first5=E. N. | title=General Catalogue of Variable Stars | version=5.1 | journal=Astronomy Reports | year=2017 | volume=61 | issue=1 | pages=80–88 | bibcode=2017ARep...61...80S | postscript=. | doi=10.1134/S1063772917010085 | s2cid=125853869 }} For that reason, in 1975, it was given the variable star designation OX Aurigae. The star's spectrum matches that of an F-type main-sequence star and it has a spectral type of F2V. It has 2.5 times the mass of the Sun and 5.7 times the Sun's radius. 59 Aurigae is thought to be around 700 million years old, and is radiating 64 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere an effective temperature of 6,808 K.