VEGA — α Lyr

Type: A0V
Tpole: 10 060 K
Teq: 7 646 K
Oblateness: 0.162
veq: 274 km/s
FPS: --
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Vega — α Lyrae
A0V — rapid rotator — 25 ly
Rapid-Rotator Shader
Stellar Parameters
10 060 K
f = 0.162
n = 2.0
Rotation
1.0 ×
Vega rotates at ~274 km/s equatorial velocity (∼17 h period), near the critical break-up limit. Rotation causes the equatorial bulge and gravity darkening.
Camera
As seen from Earth, Vega is nearly pole-on (5° inclination) — but edge-on reveals the oblate shape and gravity darkening.
Reference Data
Spectral typeA0V
Teff (pole)10 060 K
Teff (equator)7 900 K
Requatorial2.818 R☉
Rpolar2.362 R☉
Oblateness0.162
veq∼274 km/s
Period∼17 h
Luminosity37 L☉
Mass2.14 M☉
Distance7.68 pc (25 ly)
Inclination∼5° (pole-on)
Debris disk80–200 AU
Simulation Notes

Oblate geometry: vertex shader deforms the unit sphere into an oblate spheroid and recomputes the ellipsoidal normal analytically.

Gravity darkening (von Zeipel): Tlocal varies from Tpole at the poles to ~0.76 Tpole at the equator. The falloff exponent n controls the sharpness of the transition.

Debris disk: stylised ring representing Vega’s warm dust disk, first discovered by IRAS in 1983.