Astronomy:65 Aurigae
Observation data Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS) | |
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Constellation | Auriga |
Right ascension | 07h 22m 02.61744s[1] |
Declination | +36° 45′ 38.0957″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.12[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | K0 III[3] |
B−V color index | 1.082±0.005[2] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | 21.81±0.16[2] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −96.915[1] mas/yr Dec.: −22.436[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 12.9673 ± 0.1294[1] mas |
Distance | 252 ± 3 ly (77.1 ± 0.8 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 0.82[2] |
Details | |
65 Aur A | |
Mass | 1.34[4] M☉ |
Radius | 13.02+0.47 −2.57[1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 69.6±0.9[1] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 2.72[3] cgs |
Temperature | 4,575±17[4] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.35±0.04[2] dex |
Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 0.0[5] km/s |
Age | 3.31[4] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
65 Aurigae is a binary star[7] system located 252 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.12.[2] The primary, designated component A, is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III.[3] It is 3.31[4] billion years old and has expanded to 13 times the Sun's radius after exhausting the hydrogen at its core.[1] Its companion, component B, is a magnitude 11.7 star located at an angular separation of 11.4″ from the primary, as of 2008.[7] The pair are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 22 km/s.[2]
It was also known to be part of a much bigger constellation named Telescopium Herschelii before it was unrecognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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 2.6 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 3.2 Cenarro, A. J. et al. (January 2007), "Medium-resolution Isaac Newton Telescope library of empirical spectra - II. The stellar atmospheric parameters", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 374 (2): 664–690, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11196.x, Bibcode: 2007MNRAS.374..664C.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Massarotti, Alessandro et al. (January 2008), "Rotational and Radial Velocities for a Sample of 761 Hipparcos Giants and the Role of Binarity", The Astronomical Journal 135 (1): 209–231, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/209, Bibcode: 2008AJ....135..209M.
- ↑ "65 Aur". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=65+Aur.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 389 (2): 869–879, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode: 2008MNRAS.389..869E.
External links
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65 Aurigae.
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