Menkib

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Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Menkib canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf blue supergiant star ⓘ
massive star ⓘ
star ⓘ
variable star ⓘ
absoluteMagnitudeV about −5.6 ⓘ
age_Myr about 5 ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Xi Persei ⓘ
linked to: ξ Persei

ξ Persei ⓘ
apparentMagnitudeV 4.04 ⓘ
belongsToAssociation Perseus OB2 ⓘ
catalogDesignation BD+35 755 ⓘ
HD 24912 ⓘ
HIP 18614 ⓘ
HR 1203 ⓘ
colorIndexBMinusV −0.21 ⓘ
constellation Perseus ⓘ
declination +35° 47′ 28″ ⓘ
distanceFromEarth_ly about 1800 ⓘ
distanceFromEarth_pc about 550 ⓘ
effectiveTemperature_K about 35000 ⓘ
epoch J2000 ⓘ
evolutionaryStage post-main-sequence massive star ⓘ
futureEvolution likely core-collapse supernova ⓘ
galacticPopulation Population I ⓘ
hasOpticalCompanion true ⓘ
hasStellarWind true ⓘ
isAmong brightest stars in Perseus ⓘ
most luminous O-type stars visible to naked eye ⓘ
isRunawayStar true ⓘ
locatedIn Milky Way ⓘ
luminosity_solarLuminosity over 250000 ⓘ
luminosityClass III ⓘ
mass_solarMass about 40 ⓘ
metallicity_FeH approximately solar ⓘ
observedIn X-ray wavelengths ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ
ultraviolet wavelengths ⓘ
opticalCompanionType line-of-sight companion, not gravitationally bound ⓘ
radialVelocity_kmPerS about +58 ⓘ
radius_solarRadius about 14 ⓘ
rightAscension 03h 58m 57s ⓘ
rotationalVelocity_kmPerS about 200 ⓘ
runawayOrigin Perseus OB2 association ⓘ
spectralClass O-type ⓘ
spectralType O7.5III(n)((f)) ⓘ
stellarWindType strong radiatively driven wind ⓘ
surfaceGravity_logg about 3.5 ⓘ
variableType slowly pulsating O-type star ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.