Astronomy:23 Camelopardalis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Camelopardalis
23 Camelopardalis
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Camelopardalis
Right ascension  05h 44m 08.44597s[1]
Declination +61° 28′ 35.5255″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 6.168[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type G5 III:[2]
B−V color index 0.881[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−2.47±0.17[1] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −11.312[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +0.766[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)7.5250 ± 0.0371[1] mas
Distance433 ± 2 ly
(132.9 ± 0.7 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.95[3]
Details
Mass2.13[2] M
Radius9.84[1] R
Luminosity60.255[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)3.15±0.18[4] cgs
Temperature5,183±51[4] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.01±0.05[4] dex
Age1.50[2] Gyr
Other designations
23 Cam, BD+61°816, HD 37638, HIP 27046, HR 1943, SAO 13590[5]
Database references
SIMBADdata

23 Camelopardalis is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located 433 light years away from the Sun.[1] It is just visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.17.[2] The object is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −2.5 km/s.[1]

With a stellar classification of G5 III:,[2] 23 Camelopardalis appears to be an aging giant star that has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence, although the ':' denotes some uncertainty about the classification. It is a red clump giant,[6] which indicates it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. The star is 1.5[2] billion years old with more than double[2] the mass of the Sun and almost 10[1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 60[1] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,183 K.[4]

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", Astronomical Journal 150 (3): 88, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88, Bibcode2015AJ....150...88L. 
  3. Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 da Silva, R. et al. (February 2011), "Homogeneous photospheric parameters and C abundances in G and K nearby stars with and without planets", Astronomy and Astrophysics 526: 13, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015907, A71, Bibcode2011A&A...526A..71D. 
  5. "23 Cam". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=23+Cam. 
  6. Mishenina, T. V. et al. (September 2006), "Elemental abundances in the atmosphere of clump giants", Astronomy and Astrophysics 456 (3): 1109–1120, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065141, Bibcode2006A&A...456.1109M.