Büyük yıldızlar listesi

Güneş sistemi'nin gezegenleri ve bazı tanınmış yıldızların görece boyut karşılaştırması:
      1. Merkür < Mars < Venüs < Dünya
      2. Dünya < Neptün < Uranüs < Satürn < Jüpiter
      3. Jüpiter < Proxima Centauri < Güneş < Sirius
      4. Sirius < Pollux < Arcturus < Aldebaran
      5. Aldebaran < Rigel < Antares < Betelgeuse
      6. Betelgeuse < VY Canis Majoris < NML Cygni < UY Scuti

Aşağıdaki liste yarıçapına göre bilinen en büyük yıldızları göstermektedir. Kullanılan ölçü birimi güneş yarıçapıdır (yaklaşık olarak 695.500 kilometre).

Büyük Yıldızlar listesi

Yıldız	Yarıçap (Güneş = 1)	Ref.
UY Scuti	1.708	[1]
NML Cygni	1.642-2.775	[2]
RW Cephei	1.636	[3][4]
WOH G64	1.540-1.730	[5][6]
Westerlund 1-26	1.530	[7]
VX Sagittarii	1.520	[8]
VV Cephei A	1.050-1.900
VY Canis Majoris	1.420	[9][10]
KY Cygni	1.420	[11]
AH Scorpii	1.287-1.535	[1]
HR 5171 A	1.316	[12]
PZ Cassiopeiae	1.260-1.340	[13]
KW Sagittarii	1.235	[1][11]
IRC-10414	1.200	[14]
BC Cygni	1.140	[11]
V354 Cephei	1.104,5	[8][11]
RT Carinae	1.090	[11]
BI Cygni	1.078	[8][11]
Betelgeuse (Alfa Orionis)	950-1.200	[15]
V396 Centauri	1.070	[11]
CK Carinae	1.060	[11]
Mu Cephei	1.035	[11][16]
S Persei	1.005	[11]
RS Persei	1.000	[11]
NR Vulpeculae	980	[11]
RW Cygni	980	[11]
GCIRS 7	960	[17]
Antares A (Alfa Scorpii A)	883
Teta Muscae	878
V602 Carinae	860	[11]
V1749 Cygni	830	[11]
IX Carinae	790	[11]
SU Persei	780	[11]
TV Geminorum	770	[11]
T Cephei	742
V382 Carinae	700

Kaynakça

1. Arroyo-Torres, B.; Wittkowski, M.; Marcaide, J. M.; Hauschildt, P. H. (2013). "The atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of the red supergiants AH Scorpii, UY Scuti, and KW Sagittarii". Astronomy & Astrophysics 554: A76. DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201220920. 
2. Zhang, B.; Reid, M. J.; Menten, K. M.; Zheng, X. W.; Brunthaler, A. (2012). "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics 544: A42. arXiv:1207.1850. Bibcode 2012A&A...544A..42Z. DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201219587. 
3. Humphreys, R. M. (1978). "Studies of luminous stars in nearby galaxies. I. Supergiants and O stars in the Milky Way". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 38: 309. Bibcode 1978ApJS...38..309H. DOI:10.1086/190559. 
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9. Wittkowski, M.; Hauschildt, P. H.; Arroyo-Torres, B.; Marcaide, J. M. (2012). "Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics 540: L12. arXiv:1203.5194. Bibcode 2012A&A...540L..12W. DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201219126. 
10. Choi, Yoon Kyung; Hirota, Tomoya; Honma, Mareki; Kobayashi, Hideyuki; Bushimata, Takeshi; Imai, Hiroshi; Iwadate, Kenzaburo; Jike, Takaaki ve diğ. (2008). "Distance to VY CMa with VERA". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (Publications Astronomical Society of Japan) 60 (5): 1007. arXiv:0808.0641. Bibcode 2008PASJ...60.1007C. DOI:10.1093/pasj/60.5.1007. 
11. Levesque, E. M.; Massey, P.; Olsen, K. A. G.; Plez, B.; Josselin, E.; Maeder, A.; Meynet, G. (2005). "The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, but Not as Cool as We Thought". The Astrophysical Journal 628 (2): 973. arXiv:astro-ph/0504337. Bibcode 2005ApJ...628..973L. DOI:10.1086/430901. 
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13. Kusuno, K.; Asaki, Y.; Imai, H.; Oyama, T. (2013). "Distance and Proper Motion Measurement of the Red Supergiant, Pz Cas, in Very Long Baseline Interferometry H2O Maser Astrometry". The Astrophysical Journal 774 (2): 107. DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/107. 
14. Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.437..843G
15. Mohamed, S.; MacKey, J.; Langer, N. (2012). "3D simulations of Betelgeuse's bow shock". Astronomy & Astrophysics 541: A1. DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201118002. 
16. Tsuji, Takashi (2000). "Water in Emission in the Infrared Space Observatory Spectrum of the Early M Supergiant Star μ Cephei". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 540 (2): 99–102. arXiv:astro-ph/0008058. Bibcode 2000ApJ...540L..99T. DOI:10.1086/312879. 
17. Paumard, T.; Pfuhl, O.; Martins, F.; Kervella, P.; Ott, T.; Pott, J.-U.; Le Bouquin, J. B.; Breitfelder, J. ve diğ. (2014). "GCIRS 7, a pulsating M1 supergiant at the Galactic centre. Physical properties and age". Astronomy & Astrophysics 568 (85): A85. arXiv:1406.5320. Bibcode 2014A&A...568A..85P. DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201423991.