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β Pegasi (Scheat) Spectrogram, Joel Shepherd

β Pegasi (Scheat) Spectrogram

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β Pegasi (Scheat) Spectrogram, Joel Shepherd

β Pegasi (Scheat) Spectrogram

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β Pegasi, commonly known as Scheat, is an M-class star in Pegasus, with the deep and broad titanium monoxide (TiO) absorption lines common to that class.

I learned a couple new things while working on this star. One is that M-class stars are believed to be amongst the commonest and longest-lived stars out there, several hundred billion years for an M2-3 class star like this one! Yes: far longer than the current age of the universe.

Second, according to http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys230/lectures/spec_interp/spec_interp.html, is that a star's surface temperature can be estimated as 29,000,000° K / (peak wavelength in Å). From my data, that gives β Pegasi's surface temperature as 29,000,000 / 7560.7 = 3,836° K, which is 147° K off the generally accepted value of 3689° K. Isn't that crazy? Less than 5% error (so far as we know) measuring the temperature of something 192 light-years away.

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