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Tau Pegasi

Location of τ Pegasi (circled)
Observation data Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0
Constellation	Pegasus
Right ascension	23 20 38.24188
Declination	+23° 44′ 25.2098″
Apparent magnitude (V)	+4.58
Characteristics
Spectral type	A5 Vp A8V(n)kA5mA5 (λ Boo)
U−B color index	+0.13
B−V color index	+0.17
Variable type	δ Sct
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)	+15.20±1.6 km/s
Proper motion (μ)	RA: 29.45±0.33 mas/yr Dec.: −9.53±0.27 mas/yr
Parallax (π)	20.17 ± 0.40 mas
Distance	162 ± 3 ly (49.6 ± 1.0 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)	1.10
Details
Mass	2.14 M☉
Radius	2.8 R☉
Luminosity	32 L☉
Surface gravity (log g)	3.88 cgs
Temperature	7,709 K
Metallicity	−0.28 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)	149 km/s
Other designations
Salm, 62 Pegasi, BD+22°4810, FK5 880, GC 32503, HIP 115250, HR 8880, HD 220061, SAO 91186
Database references
SIMBAD	data

Tau Pegasi (τ Pegasi, abbreviated Tau Peg, τ Peg), formally named Salm /ˈsɑːm/, is a magnitude 4.6 star 162 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. With about twice the mass of the Sun and thirty times as luminous, it is a δ Scuti variable star with its brightness changing by a few hundredths of a magnitude over about an hour.

Nomenclature

τ Pegasi (Latinised to Tau Pegasi) is the star's Bayer designation.

The star bore the traditional names Salm, Kerb (or El Khereb) and Markab (often spelled Markeb), a name shared with Alpha Pegasi, k Puppis and Kappa Velorum. In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name Salm (a homophone with the planet Samh) for this star and Markeb for the component Kappa Velorum A, both on 5 September 2017. Markab had previously been approved for Alpha Pegasi on 30 June 2016. All three are now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

In Chinese, 離宮 (Lì Gōng), meaning Resting Palace, refers to an asterism consisting of Tau Pegasi, Lambda Pegasi, Mu Pegasi, Omicron Pegasi, Eta Pegasi and Nu Pegasi. Consequently, the Chinese name for Tau Pegasi itself is 離宮五 (Lì Gōng wǔ), "the Fifth Star of Resting Palace".

Properties

Tau Pegasi belongs to spectral class A5 Vp, making it an A-type main-sequence star. It is a type of chemically peculiar star with unusually weak spectral lines of iron peak elements, a class known as λ Boötis stars.

Tau Pegasi is a multiperiodic Delta Scuti variable, with reported pulsation periods ranging from 0.94 to 1.30 hours. It is rotating rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 150 km/s. Tau Pegasi is radiating nearly 30 times the luminosity of the Sun from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 7,762 K.

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v t e Constellation of Pegasus
Pegasus in Chinese astronomy List of stars in Pegasus
Stars	Bayer α (Markab) β (Scheat) γ (Algenib) δ (Alpheratz) ε (Enif) ζ (Homam) η (Matar) θ (Biham) ι κ λ μ (Sadalbari) ν ξ ο π π ρ σ τ (Salm) υ (Alkarab) φ χ ψ Flamsteed 1 2 3 4 5 7 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 25 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 45 51 (Helvetios) 52 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 63 64 65 66 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 82 83 85 86 87 23 Psc 34 Vul Variable R S U W Z RU RV RZ SV TW TY AG AQ AT AU AV AW BB BH BK BO BP BX BY DH DI DY EE EF EQ EZ GT GX HN HO HP HR HX II IK IM IP KT KU LL LO LS MS MT NV NZ OY PT V342 V343 V354 V363 V372 V376 V391 HR 19 49 8116 8219 8221 8231 8250 8257 8258 8274 8292 8325 8341 8348 8358 8359 8364 8372 8391 8397 8412 8415 8435 8441 8455 8456 8458 8460 8461 8466 8475 8482 8491 8503 8514 8543 8555 8564 8587 8604 8605 8608 8631 8638 8642 8737 8784 8788 8792 8824 8831 8833 8838 8839 8873 8922 8942 8953 8970 9039 9055 9078 9109 HD 434 204603 205011 205422 205603 206689 206793 208897 209709 210890 211076 213025 215549 215733 219196 219828 220288 220773 221170 221493 225292 Other BD+14 4559 (Solaris) BD +17 4708 BD +28 4211 GD 246 Gl 829 Gl 880 HAT-P-8 NGC 8 NGC 18 NGC 30 PG 2131+066 PG 2303+243 PSR B2127+11C PSR B2303+30 Q2343-BX418 WASP-10 WASP-21 (Tangra) WASP-52 (Anadolu) WASP-59 WASP-60 (Morava) X2127+119 3C 454.3
Exoplanets 51 Pegasi b (Dimidium) WASP-10b BD+14 4559 b (Pirx) TOI-5678 b HD 209458 b HR 8799 b c d e
Star clusters	Other Balbinot 1 Messier 15
Nebulae	Other Pease 1
Galaxies	NGC 1 2 9 14 15 16 22 23 26 41 42 52 7033 7034 7042 7043 7053 7056 7066 7068 7074 7085 7190 7217 7236 7237 7303 7312 7315 7317 7318 7319 7320 7320c 7331 7332 7427 7448 7454 7457 7466 7469 7479 7610 7619 7625 7673 7674 7678 7720 7726 7735 7741 7742 NGC 7752 NGC 7753 7767 7769 7773 7800 7814 Other BX442 CTA-102 Einstein Cross Huchra's lens IC 5145 IC 5337 Markarian 335 Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Q2343-BX418
Galaxy clusters Abell 2390 NGC 7331 Group Stephan's Quintet
Astronomical events SN 1990U SN 2008ha SN 2013fs
Category

• Bayer objects
• Pegasus (constellation)
• A-type main-sequence stars
• Stars with proper names
• Flamsteed objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Durchmusterung objects
• Delta Scuti variables
• Ap stars