Star in the constellation Cygnus
28 Cygni is a binary[ 6] star in the northern constellation of Cygnus . It is a faint blue-white hued star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.93.[ 3] The distance to 28 Cyg, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 5.3 mas ,[ 2] is around 620 light years . It has an absolute magnitude of −2.56,[ 3] which means that if the star were just 10 parsecs (33 light-years) away it would be brighter than Sirius , the brightest star in the night sky.
This primary object is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B2.5 V, per Lesh (1968).[ 4] Slettebak (1982) found a class of B2 IV(e),[ 5] which would suggest this is a more evolved subgiant star . It is a Be star , which means the spectrum displays emission lines due a disk of ejected gas in a Keplerian orbit around the star. The star displays short-term variability with two or more periods,[ 10] and is classified as an SX Arietis variable by Samus et al. (2017).[ 7] It is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 320 km/s; estimated at round 80% of the critical rotation rate. This is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge out to 6.5 times the Sun's radius , compared to 5.7 at the poles.[ 10] The central star is orbited by a secondary companion star, which is a subdwarf O star .[ 6] After previous failed attempts to find the star,[ 15] the companion was detected using interferometry , but the orbital parameters are unknown.[ 6]
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