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

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