BG Crucis

{{Starbox begin

| name = BG Crucis

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{{Starbox image

| image = 250px

| caption = A light curve for BG Crucis, plotted from Hipparcos data

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{{Starbox observe

| epoch = J2000

| constell = Crux

| ra = {{RA|12|31|40.33011}}

| dec = {{DEC|-59|25|26.1224}}

| appmag_v = 5.49 {{nowrap|(5.34 - 5.58)}}

}}

{{Starbox character

| type =

| class = F7Ib/II {{nowrap|(F5Ib - G0p)}}

| b-v = {{Val|0.622|0.012}}

| u-b =

| variable =

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{{Starbox astrometry

| radial_v = {{Val|−19.3|2.2}}

| prop_mo_ra = −12.689

| prop_mo_dec = −4.110

| parallax = 1.7777

| p_error = 0.0873

| parallax_footnote =

| absmag_v = −2.63

}}

{{Starbox detail

| source =

| mass = 4.3 or {{Val|6.3|0.5}}

| radius = {{Val|39.30|2.82|3.23}}

| luminosity = 1,033.93

| gravity = 2.15

| temperature = {{Val|6253|30|fmt=commas}}

| metal_fe =

| rotational_velocity = {{Val|22.0|1.8}}

| age_myr = {{Val|63.7|15.8}}

}}

{{Starbox catalog

| names={{odlist | G=35 Cru | V=BG Cru | CD=−58° 4603 | HD=108968 | HIP=61136 | HR=4768 | SAO=180937 | AAVSO=1226-58 }}

}}

{{Starbox reference

| Simbad = 35+Cru

}}

BG Crucis is a suspected binary star system in the southern constellation of Crux. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint yellow-white hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 5.49. The system is located at a distance of approximately 1,830 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −19 km/s.

The visible component is a supergiant star that pulsates between spectral types F5Ib and G0p. It is a small amplitude classical Cepheid variable with an apparent magnitude ranges from 5.34 down to 5.58 over a period of 3.3428 days. On the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of temperature versus luminosity, it is located near the blue (hotter) edge of the Cepheid instability strip. Models indicate the cepheid region is relatively small in this star, so there are no shock waves produced as a result of the instability.

BG Crucis is 64 million years old with four to six times the mass of the Sun. Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, it has expanded to 39 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating over a thousand times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,253 K.

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Category:F-type supergiants

Category:Classical Cepheid variables

Category:Binary stars

Category:Crux

Category:Durchmusterung objects