Astronomy:43 Aurigae
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Short description: Star in the constellation Auriga
| Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Auriga |
| Right ascension | 06h 18m 16.86513s[1] |
| Declination | +46° 21′ 37.5926″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 6.33[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | giant |
| Spectral type | K2 III[3] |
| B−V color index | 1.113±0.007 |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | −3.35±0.20[2] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: +12.111[1] mas/yr Dec.: −130.433[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 8.5429 ± 0.0330[1] mas |
| Distance | 382 ± 1 ly (117.1 ± 0.5 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 0.92[2] |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.43[4] M☉ |
| Radius | 10.80±0.42[1] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 49.2±0.3[1] L☉ |
| Temperature | 4,552±62[4] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.01±0.04[2] dex |
| Age | 2.7±1.3[5] Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
43 Aurigae is a star located 382 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is just bright enough to be barely visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.33.[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −3.4 km/s.[2]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III,[3] having exhausted the hydrogen at its core and expanded off the main sequence. Roughly three[5] billion years old, this star has 1.43[4] times the mass of the Sun and 11[1] times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 49[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,552 K.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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 Eggen, O. J. (1962), "Space-velocity vectors for 3483 stars with proper motion and radial velocity", Royal Observatory Bulletin 51: 79, Bibcode: 1962RGOB...51...79E.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Luck, R. Earle (2015), "Abundances in the Local Region. I. G and K Giants", The Astronomical Journal 150 (3): 88, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/88, Bibcode: 2015AJ....150...88L.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ramya, P. et al. (August 2016), "Chemical compositions and kinematics of the Hercules stream", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 460 (2): 1356−1370, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw852, Bibcode: 2016MNRAS.460.1356R.
- ↑ "43 Aur". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=43+Aur.
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