Astronomy:GJ 1252

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Short description: Red dwarf star in the constellation Telescopium
GJ 1252
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Telescopium[1]
Right ascension  20h 27m 42.08140s[2]
Declination −56° 27′ 25.1519″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 12.193[3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Main sequence
Spectral type M2.5V[4]
Apparent magnitude (B) 13.655±0.029[3]
Apparent magnitude (V) 12.193±0.056[3]
Apparent magnitude (G) 11.235±0.003[2]
Apparent magnitude (J) 8.697±0.019[3]
Apparent magnitude (H) 8.161±0.034[3]
Apparent magnitude (K) 7.915±0.023[3]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)7.38±0.29[2] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: 424.417[2] mas/yr
Dec.: −1,230.941[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)49.0555 ± 0.0247[2] mas
Distance66.49 ± 0.03 ly
(20.39 ± 0.01 pc)
Details
Mass0.381±0.008[5] M
Radius0.391±0.012[5] R
Luminosity (bolometric)0.0196+0.0026
−0.0023
[3] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.83±0.03[5] cgs
Temperature3,458+140
−133
[3] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.18±0.13[5] dex
Age3.9±0.4[6] Gyr
Other designations
GJ 1252, L 210-70, LFT 1546, LHS 492, LTT 8083, NLTT 49258, PM J20277-5627, 2MASS J20274210-5627262[7]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata

GJ 1252 is a red dwarf star located 66.5 light-years (20.4 parsecs) away from the Solar System in the constellation of Telescopium. The star has about 38% the mass and 39% the radius of the Sun, and a temperature of about 3,458 K (3,185 °C; 5,765 °F). GJ 1252 is orbited by one known exoplanet.[3]

Planetary system

Artist's impression of GJ 1252 b[8]

GJ 1252 was found to have a planet, GJ 1252 b, in 2019 using transit observations from TESS.[3] It is a terrestrial planet larger than Earth, with about 1.3 times the mass and 1.18 times the radius of Earth. Orbiting its star with a very short period of just 12.4 hours, it is presumably tidally locked. Secondary eclipse observations have shown that GJ 1252 b lacks a significant atmosphere, similar to LHS 3844 b and TRAPPIST-1b, and have measured its dayside temperature at about 1,410 K (1,140 °C; 2,080 °F).[6][8]

A candidate second planet was identified in 2022 with Doppler spectroscopy (radial velocity method), named GJ 1252 c.[9] It orbits with a period of 18.41 days and has a mass of at least 6.08 M. The existence of this planet in uncertain, as the radial velocity variations may be intrinsic to the star rather than due to the gravitational pull of an orbiting body.[5]

Template:Orbitbox planet hypothetical
The GJ 1252 planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 1.54±0.18[5] M 0.00915±0.00015[6] 0.51824160[6] 0[9] 84.8±3.2[6]° 1.19±0.05[5] R

References

  1. "Finding the constellation which contains given sky coordinates". 2 August 2008. http://djm.cc/constellation.html. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Vallenari, A. et al. (2022). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940  Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 Shporer, Avi et al. (February 2020). "GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 890 (1): L7. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020. Bibcode2020ApJ...890L...7S. 
  4. Reid, I. Neill et al. (October 1995). "The Palomar/MSU Nearby-Star Spectroscopic Survey. I. The Northern M Dwarfs -Bandstrengths and Kinematics". Astronomical Journal 110: 1838. doi:10.1086/117655. Bibcode1995AJ....110.1838R. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Weisserman, Drew; Gromek, Nicole; Cloutier, Ryan; Bali, Komal; Cadieux, Charles; Plotnykov, Mykhaylo; L'Heureux, Alexandrine; Srivastava, Avidaan et al. (2026-04-08). "Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Crossfield, Ian J. M. et al. (September 2022). "GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth with No Atmosphere". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 937 (1): L17. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac886b. Bibcode2022ApJ...937L..17C. 
  7. "GJ 1252". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=GJ+1252. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Gohd, Chelsea (11 October 2022). "Discovery Alert: Ultra-hot 'Super-Earth' Could Have No Atmosphere". NASA. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1713/discovery-alert-ultra-hot-super-earth-could-have-no-atmosphere/. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Luque, Rafael; Pallé, Enric (2022-09-09). "Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars". Science 377 (6611): 1211–1214. doi:10.1126/science.abl7164.