S Muscae
{{Short description|Star in the constellation Musca}}
{{Starbox begin
| name= S Muscae
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{{Starbox image
| image=
{{Location mark
|image=Musca constellation map.svg|alt=|float=center|width=280
|label=|position=right
|mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=8|mark_link=S Mus|x=576|y=406
}}
|caption=Location of S Muscae (circled)
}}
{{Starbox observe
| epoch=J2000
| appmag_v=6.394 {{nowrap|(5.89 - 6.49)}}
|constell= Musca
}}
{{Starbox character
| class={{nowrap|F6Ib (F6-G0) + B5V{{cite journal|bibcode=2014yCat....1.2023S|title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2009-2014)|journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/Mk. Originally Published in: Lowell Observatory (October 2014)|volume=1|last1=Skiff|first1=B. A.|year=2014}}}}
| variable=δ Cepheid
}}
{{Starbox astrometry
| parallax=1.99
| p_error=0.84
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{{Starbox orbit
| reference = {{cite journal|bibcode=2004MNRAS.350...95P|title=The orbits of southern binary Cepheids|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=350|pages=95–112|last1=Petterson|first1=O. K. L.|last2=Cottrell|first2=P. L.|last3=Albrow|first3=M. D.|year=2004|issue=1|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07555.x|doi-access=free}}
| primary =
| name =
| period =
| period_unitless = 504.9 ± 0.07
| axis =
| axis_unitless = 794 AU
| eccentricity = 0.08 ± 0.002
| inclination = 32 ± 1
| node =
| periastron =
| periarg =
| periarg_primary =
| k1 = 14.7 ± 0.2
| k2 =
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{{Starbox detail
| temperature=
| rotation=
| component2=companion
| age_myr2=
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{{Starbox catalog
| names= S Mus, HR 4645, SAO 251791, CD−69°977, GSC 09231-00752, HD 106111, GC 16679, HIP 59551, AAVSO 1207-69
}}
{{Starbox reference
|Simbad=S+Muscae
}}
{{Starbox end}}
S Muscae is a classical (δ) Cepheid variable star in the constellation Musca about 2,600 light years away.
File:SMusLightCurve.png for S Muscae, plotted from TESS data]]
S Muscae is a yellow supergiant ranging between spectral types F6Ib and G0Ib and magnitudes 5.89 to 6.49 over a period of 9.66 days.{{cite journal|bibcode=2009yCat....102025S|title=VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)|journal=VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S|volume=1|display-authors=etal|last1=Samus|first1=N. N.|last2=Durlevich|first2=O. V.|year=2009}} It is a luminous star around six times as massive as the Sun and 65.1 times the radius of the Sun. It is a binary star with a blue-white main sequence star companion likely to be of spectral type B3V to B5V with a mass of just over five solar masses,{{cite journal|display-authors=4|bibcode = 1997ApJ...477..916B|doi=10.1086/303725|title = The Mass of the Classical Cepheid S Muscae|journal = The Astrophysical Journal|volume = 477|issue = 2|pages = 916|year = 1997|last1 = Bohm-Vitense|first1 = Erika|last2 = Remage Evans|first2 = Nancy|last3 = Carpenter|first3 = Kenneth|last4 = Beck-Winchatz|first4 = Bernhard|last5 = Robinson|first5 = Richard|doi-access = free}} one of the hottest and brightest companions of a Cepheid known. The two stars orbit each other every 505 days.{{cite journal|bibcode=1990PASP..102..551E|doi=10.1086/132668|title=The orbit and colors of the Cepheid S MUSCAE|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific|volume=102|pages=551|year=1990|last1=Evans|first1=Nancy Remage|doi-access=free}}
S Muscae has been found to lie within the faint star cluster ASCC 69.{{cite journal|bibcode=2014ApJ...785L..25E|arxiv=1403.6939|title=X-Ray Detection of the Cluster Containing the Cepheid S Mus|journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters|volume=785|issue=2|pages=L25|last1=Remage Evans|first1=Nancy|last2=Pillitteri|first2=Ignazio|last3=Wolk|first3=Scott|last4=Guinan|first4=Edward|last5=Engle|first5=Scott|last6=Bond|first6=Howard E.|last7=Schaefer|first7=Gail H.|last8=Karovska|first8=Margarita|last9=Depasquale|first9=Joseph|last10=Tingle|first10=Evan|year=2014|doi=10.1088/2041-8205/785/2/L25|s2cid=119113620}}