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- UW_Canis_Majoris abstract "UW Canis Majoris is a star in the constellation Canis Major. It is classified as a Beta Lyrae eclipsing contact binary and given the variable star designation UW Canis Majoris. Its brightness varies from magnitude +4.84 to +5.33 with a period of 4.39 days. Bode had initially labelled it as Tau2 Canis Majoris, but this designation had been dropped by Gould and subsequent authors.UW Canis Majoris A is a rare blue supergiant of spectral type O7.5-8 Iab. The precise characteristics of the system are still uncertain, in part because the spectral signature of the secondary is very hard to disentangle from the spectrum of the primary and the surrounding envelope of stellar wind. A detailed spectral study by Gies et. al. found that the primary had a diameter 13 times that of the Sun, while its secondaty companion is a slightly cooler, less evolved and less luminous supergiant of spectral type O9.7Ib that is 10 times the Sun's diameter. According to this study, the brighter star is the more luminous, its luminosity 200,000 times that of the Sun as opposed to the secondary's 63,000 times. However the secondary is the more massive star at 19 Solar masses to the primary's 16.However, a more recent photometric analysis finds several configurations of mass and luminosity ratios that match the observed data.Parallax measurements showed it to be approximately 3000 light years from Earth, but this is unexpectedly close for a star of its spectral type and brightness. Recent more accurate Hipparcos parallax data gives an even closer result around 2000 light years. It is thought to be distant member of NGC 2362 which would place it about 5000 light years and more closely match its expected luminosity. The contradiction between the different distance results is still a subject of research.".
- UW_Canis_Majoris thumbnail Canis_Major_constellation_map.svg?width=300.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageID "2922328".
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageLength "8366".
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageOutDegree "32".
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageRevisionID "707123632".
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Beta_Lyrae.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Beta_Lyrae_variable.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Blue_supergiant.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Boss_General_Catalogue.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Bright_Star_Catalogue.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Canis_Major.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Beta_Lyrae_variables.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canis_Major_(constellation).
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Durchmusterung_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flamsteed_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:HR_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Henry_Draper_Catalogue_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Hipparcos_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:O-type_supergiants.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Category:Objects_named_with_variable_star_designations.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Constellation.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Durchmusterung.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Earth.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Epoch_(astronomy).
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Flamsteed_designation.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Draper_Catalogue.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Hipparcos.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Light-year.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink NGC_2362.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory_Star_Catalog.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Solar_mass.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Star.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Stellar_classification.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Stellar_wind.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Variable_star.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLink Variable_star_designation.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLinkText "UW CMa".
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageWikiLinkText "UW Canis Majoris".
- UW_Canis_Majoris absmagV "-6.1".
- UW_Canis_Majoris appmagV "4.95".
- UW_Canis_Majoris bV "−0.15".
- UW_Canis_Majoris class "O7.5Iabf + O9.7Ib".
- UW_Canis_Majoris component "UW CMa1".
- UW_Canis_Majoris component "UW CMa2".
- UW_Canis_Majoris constell Canis_Major.
- UW_Canis_Majoris distLy "5".
- UW_Canis_Majoris distPc "1.5".
- UW_Canis_Majoris eccentricity "0".
- UW_Canis_Majoris epoch Epoch_(astronomy).
- UW_Canis_Majoris inclination "71".
- UW_Canis_Majoris luminosity "170000".
- UW_Canis_Majoris luminosity "240000".
- UW_Canis_Majoris mass "11".
- UW_Canis_Majoris mass "17".
- UW_Canis_Majoris name "UW CMa2".
- UW_Canis_Majoris node "3.3".
- UW_Canis_Majoris pError "0.27".
- UW_Canis_Majoris parallax "1.71".
- UW_Canis_Majoris periodUnitless "379295.99999999994".
- UW_Canis_Majoris primary "UW CMa1".
- UW_Canis_Majoris propMoDec "3.16".
- UW_Canis_Majoris propMoRa "−2.21".
- UW_Canis_Majoris radialV "20".
- UW_Canis_Majoris radius "12".
- UW_Canis_Majoris radius "14".
- UW_Canis_Majoris temperature "33300".
- UW_Canis_Majoris temperature "33750".
- UW_Canis_Majoris uB "−1.00".
- UW_Canis_Majoris variable Beta_Lyrae.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:DEC.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Location_mark.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:RA.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Solar_radius.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_astrometry.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_begin.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_catalog.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_character.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_detail.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_end.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_image.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_observe.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_orbit.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Starbox_reference.
- UW_Canis_Majoris wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Stars_of_Canis_Major.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Beta_Lyrae_variables.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Canis_Major_(constellation).
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Durchmusterung_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Flamsteed_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:HR_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Henry_Draper_Catalogue_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Hipparcos_objects.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:O-type_supergiants.
- UW_Canis_Majoris subject Category:Objects_named_with_variable_star_designations.
- UW_Canis_Majoris hypernym Star.
- UW_Canis_Majoris type CelestialBody.
- UW_Canis_Majoris type Place.
- UW_Canis_Majoris type Star.
- UW_Canis_Majoris type Catalogue.