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Revision as of 11:18, 5 July 2024
hier kommt die Maus
Etymology and History
Name appears to stem from Struve (1948) “J. S. Plaskett's Star of Large Mass, HD 47129” https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1948ApJ...107..327S/abstract and subsequently as “Plaskett’s Star”by Abhyankar (1957) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1957PASP...69..385A/abstract. Struve remarked that the system was unique for its total mass being so massive (>139 Msun)
Mythology
IAU Star Name
Appears in various name compendia: Hoffleit’s Bright Star Catalog 4th & 5th eds, Burnham (1978), Spite & Lahmek (1982), Lortet & Spite (1986), Fernandez+(1983) Recent examples of use in paper title’s:Mahy+2011 2011A&A...525A.101M , Grunhut+2013 2013MNRAS.428.1686G, Palate & Rauw (2014) 2014A&A...572A..16P, Naze+2017 (2017MNRAS.467..501N) “Plaskett’s Star” has its own entry in “Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics” (ed. Murdin, 2001) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000eaa..bookE5170./abstract V=6.06 mag O supergiant binary – two ~55 solar mass stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaskett%27s_Star Name is already in SIMBAD: https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=plaskett%27s+star The star has no other known alias.
