Astronomy:1 Centauri
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Centaurus |
| Right ascension | 13h 45m 41.24482s[1] |
| Declination | −33° 02′ 37.3997″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +4.23[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | F2 V[3] |
| U−B color index | +0.00[4] |
| B−V color index | +0.38[4] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −21.5±0.6[5] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −462.49±0.18[1] mas/yr Dec.: −146.49±0.16[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 51.54 ± 0.19[1] mas |
| Distance | 63.3 ± 0.2 ly (19.40 ± 0.07 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | +2.81[6] |
| Orbit[7] | |
| Period (P) | 9.94480±0.00441 d |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.247±0.105 |
| Periastron epoch (T) | 2,422,737.382 ± 3.35 JD |
| Argument of periastron (ω) (secondary) | 137.7±25.4° |
| Semi-amplitude (K1) (primary) | 6.00±0.75 km/s |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.35[6] M☉ |
| Luminosity (bolometric) | 5.857[8] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.25±0.14[9] cgs |
| Temperature | 6,898±235[9] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.09[8] dex |
| Rotation | 2.42±0.22[8] |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 86[6] km/s |
| Age | 1.193[9] Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
1 Centauri, or i Centauri,[10] is a yellow-white-hued binary star[7] system in the southern constellation Centaurus. It can be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +4.23.[2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 51.54 mas as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located 51.5 light-years from the Sun. The system is moving closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −21.5 km/s.[5]
Spectrographic images taken at the Cape Observatory between 1921 and 1923 showed this star has a variable radial velocity, which indicated this is a single-lined spectroscopic binary star system. The pair have an orbital period of 9.94 days and an eccentricity of about 0.2.[7]
The primary component has received a number of different stellar classifications. For example, Jaschek et al. (1964) lists F0V, F2III, F4III and F4IV, thus ranging in evolutionary state from an ordinary F-type main-sequence star to a giant star.[11] More recently, Houk (1982) listed a class of F3 V,[12] matching an ordinary main-sequence star that is generating energy through hydrogen fusion at its core. The NStars project gives it a classification of F2 V.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 van Leeuwen, F. (2007). "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction". Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357. Bibcode: 2007A&A...474..653V. Vizier catalog entry
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode: 2012AstL...38..331A.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gray, R. O.; Corbally, C. J.; Garrison, R. F.; McFadden, M. T.; Bubar, E. J.; McGahee, C. E.; O'Donoghue, A. A.; Knox, E. R. (2006), "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc--The Southern Sample", The Astronomical Journal 132: 161–170, doi:10.1086/504637, Bibcode: 2006AJ....132..161G.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hoffleit, Dorrit; Jaschek, Carlos (1991). "The Bright star catalogue". New Haven. Bibcode: 1991bsc..book.....H.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Eilers, A.-C. (October 2012), "Radial velocities for the HIPPARCOS-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project", Astronomy & Astrophysics 546: 14, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219219, A61, Bibcode: 2012A&A...546A..61D.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Pizzolato, N. et al. (September 2000), "Evolution of X-ray activity of 1-3 Msun late-type stars in early post-main-sequence phases", Astronomy and Astrophysics 361: 614–628, Bibcode: 2000A&A...361..614P
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Spencer Jones, Harold (1928), "Radial velocity determinations : including a spectroscopic determination of the constant of aberration, the orbits of 13 spectroscopic binary stars, and the radial velocities of 434 stars", Annals of the Cape Observatory 10: 246, Bibcode: 1928AnCap..10....8S.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Montesinos, B. et al. (September 2016), "Incidence of debris discs around FGK stars in the solar neighbourhood", Astronomy & Astrophysics 593: 31, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628329, A51, Bibcode: 2016A&A...593A..51M.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal 804 (2): 146, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146, Bibcode: 2015ApJ...804..146D.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "1 Cen". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=1+Cen.
- ↑ Hauck, B. (1979), "Correlation of spectroscopic and photometric data", International Astronomical Union, Colloquium on Spectral Classification of the Future, Vatican City, July 11–15, 1978. Ricerche Astronomiche (IAU Colloquium 47) 9: 161–178, Bibcode: 1979RA......9..161H.
- ↑ Houk, Nancy (1979), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars", Michigan Catalogue of Two-dimensional Spectral Types for the HD stars. Volume_3. Declinations -40_ƒ0 to -26_ƒ0 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan) 3, Bibcode: 1982mcts.book.....H.
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