天弁二盾牌座δ)是在南天盾牌座的一顆巨星視星等4.72等[4],是在這個小且沒有特徵星座的第五亮星。分析依巴谷衛星任務期間測量的視差,這顆恆星與地球的距離大約是202光年(62秒差距[1]。天弁二是盾牌座δ變星的原型,這種變星來自體積脹縮造成光度的高振幅大約都在0.15星等左右。這顆恆星特有的化學豐度與Am星相似[8]

天弁二(盾牌座δ)

天弁二的位置(中心)。
觀測資料
曆元 J2000
星座 盾牌座
星官
赤經 18h 42m 16.422137s[1]
赤緯 −09° 03′ 09.19206″[1]
視星等(V) 4.60 - 4.79[2]
特性
光譜分類F2 IIIp[3]
U−B 色指數+0.16[4][2]
B−V 色指數+0.35[4]
變星類型盾牌座δ
天體測定
徑向速度 (Rv)−44.8[5] km/s
自行 (μ) 赤經:9.21[1] mas/yr
赤緯:0.82[1] mas/yr
視差 (π)16.11 ± 0.31[1] mas
距離202 ± 4 ly
(62 ± 1 pc)
絕對星等 (MV)0.72±0.04[6]
詳細資料
質量2.23+0.06
−0.05
[7] M
表面重力 (log g)3.5[8]
溫度7000[8] K
金屬量 [Fe/H]0.41[6] dex
自轉速度 (v sin i)25.5[8] km/s
年齡0.7±0.1[6] Gyr
其他命名
盾牌座2、BD−09° 4796, FK5 1486、HD 172748、HIP 91726、HR 7020、 SAO 142515。[9]
參考資料庫
SIMBAD資料

在1900年,天文學家威廉·華萊士·坎貝爾(William Wallace Campbell)和威廉·哈蒙德·賴特英語William Hammond Wright使用利克天文台的米爾斯光譜儀確定該恆星的徑向速度會變化[10]。在1935年,測量出光度以0.19377日(4.65小時)的週期有着0.2等(在+4.60至+4.79之間變化)的振幅,並證實這種變化是內在的,而不是光譜聯星造成的結果[11]。在1938年,發現了次要的週期,並提出脈動理論來模擬這種變異[12]。之後對天弁二的觀測表明,它是在多重離散的徑向和非徑向模式下脈動。模式最強的頻率是59.731μHz,其次是61.936μHz,依此類推,現在共建模了八種不同的頻率模式[13]

這顆恆星在銀道坐標系空間速度[U, V, W] = [–42, –17, –1] km·s−1。它以離心率0.11的軌道繞行銀河系,最接近銀河中心的距離是22.31 kly(6.84 kpc),最遠的距離是27.59 kly(8.46 kpc)[6]。如果天弁二維持現在的運動和光度,它將以10光年的距離內經過太陽系附近[14],並且在西元11500001330000 CE成為天空中最亮的恆星,視星等為-1.84,比天狼星現在的-1.46還要明亮[15]

天弁二有二顆光學伴星。第一顆距離15.2角秒,視星等+12.2。第二顆距離53角秒,視星等+9.2[16]

佛蘭斯蒂德沒有將天弁二標示在盾牌座,而是將它與其它幾顆星納入天鷹座,並在星表中標記為天鷹座2拜耳名稱的盾牌座δ是由古德命名的[17]

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