IRAS 05280-6910

IRAS 05280–6910 (also known as LMC 582) is a red supergiant star or OH/IR supergiant star.[1] It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud and it is also the most reddened object in the Large Magellanic Cloud, far more than the redness that the famous red supergiant WOH G64 emits. Its radius is 1,367 to 1,736 times that of the Sun, making it one of the largest stars found so far. If it was placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would reach and eat the orbit of Jupiter. It is estimated that the star loses 5.4×10−4 M (Solar mass) per year, this mass loss rate is the highest known for any red supergiant star.

IRAS 05280–6910

Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Dorado (LMC)
Right ascension 05h 28m 00.28s
Declination -69° 10′ 26.0″[2]
Characteristics
Apparent magnitude (J) 14.45[3]
Apparent magnitude (K) 12.87[3]
Details
Radius1,367[4] - 1,736[5] R
Luminosity220,000[5] - 225,000[4] L
Temperature3,000[5] - 3,400[4] K
Other designations
IRAS 05280–6910, MSX LMC 582, OH 279.6 -32.6, LI-LMC 1100, NGC 1984 IR 1
Database references
SIMBADdata

References

  1. Wood, P. R.; Whiteoak, J. B.; Hughes, S. M. G.; Bessell, M. S.; Gardner, F. F.; Hyland, A. R. (October 1992). "OH/IR Stars in the Magellanic Clouds". The Astrophysical Journal. 397: 552. Bibcode:1992ApJ...397..552W. doi:10.1086/171812. ISSN 0004-637X.
  2. Gruendl, R.A.; Chu, Y.-H. (2009). "High- and intermediate-mass young stellar objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 184 (1): 172–197. arXiv:0908.0347. Bibcode:2009ApJS..184..172G. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/184/1/172.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Van Loon, J.T.; Marshall, J.R.; Zijlstra, A. A. (2005). "Dust-enshrouded giants in clusters in the Magellanic Clouds". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 442 (2): 597–613. arXiv:astro-ph/0507571. Bibcode:2005A&A...442..597V. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20053528.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Steven R. Goldman; Jacco Th. van Loon (2016). "The wind speeds, dust content, and mass-loss rates of evolved AGB and RSG stars at varying metallicity". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465 (1): 403–433. arXiv:1610.05761. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.465..403G. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2708. S2CID 11352637.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Matsuura, Mikako; Sargent, B.; Swinyard, Bruce; Yates, Jeremy; Royer, P.; Barlow, M. J.; Boyer, Martha; Decin, L.; Khouri, Theo; Meixner, Margaret; Van Loon, Jacco Th., Woods, Paul M (2016). "The mass-loss rates of red supergiants at low metallicity: Detection of rotational CO emission from two red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462 (3): 2995–3005. arXiv:1608.01729. Bibcode:2016MNRAS.462.2995M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1853. S2CID 53059365.