Astronomy:HD 111395

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Short description: Star in the constellation Coma Berenices
HD 111395
LWComLightCurve.png
A visual band light curve for LW Comae Berenices, adapted from Strassmeier et al. (1997)[1]
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Coma Berenices
Right ascension  12h 48m 47.048s[2]
Declination +24° 50′ 24.82″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 6.29[3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage main sequence
Spectral type G7V[4]
B−V color index 0.703±0.002[3]
Variable type BY Dra[5]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−8.936±0.0064[6] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −334.908[2] mas/yr
Dec.: −105.517[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)58.4858 ± 0.0293[2] mas
Distance55.77 ± 0.03 ly
(17.098 ± 0.009 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)5.15[3]
Details
Mass1.08±0.04[7] M
Radius0.93±0.01[8] R
Luminosity0.799±0.001[8] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.543±0.05[7] cgs
Temperature5,649+38
−17
[8] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.08±0.02[7] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.8±0.8[7] km/s
Age1.0[9] or 1.01−1.73[10] Gyr
Other designations
LW Com, BD+25°2568, FK5 3021, GJ 486.1, HD 111395, HIP 62523, HR 4864, SAO 82511[11]
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 111395 is a single,[12] variable star in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It has the variable star designation LW Com, short for LW Comae Berenices;[5] HD 111395 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation. The star has a yellow hue and is just bright enough to be barely visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 6.29.[3] Based upon parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of 55.8 light years from the Sun.[2] The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −8.9 km/s.[6] It is a member of the Eta Chamaeleontis stellar kinematic group.[13]

This object is a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G7V.[4] It is a BY Draconis variable that varies in brightness by about 0.10 magnitude over a period of 15.8 days,[5] which is interpreted as the rotation period of the star. (Messina et al. (2003) suspect the actual rotation period may be half that: 7.9 days.[14]) It has an active chromosphere[1] and is a source for X-ray emission.[15]

The star is around a billion years old with a projected rotational velocity of 3.8 km/s.[7] It has slightly above solar metallicity − the term astronomers use for the relative abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium. The mass of the star is 8% greater than the Sun,[7] but it has 93% of the Sun's radius.[8] It is radiating 80% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5649 K.[8] An infrared excess indicates a cold debris disk is orbiting the star at a distance of 17.48 astronomical unit|AU with a mean temperature of 60 K. The disk has an estimated mass of 5.86×10−6 M.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Strassmeier, K. G. et al. (December 1997), "Photospheric and chromospheric activity of the bright and single G5 dwarf HR 4864 = HD 111395", Information Bulletin on Variable Stars 4538: 1, Bibcode1997IBVS.4538....1S. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Brown, A. G. A. (2021). "Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 649: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657. Bibcode2021A&A...649A...1G.  Gaia EDR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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 Gray, R. O. et al. (July 2006), "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 parsecs: The Northern Sample I", The Astronomical Journal 132 (1): 161–170, doi:10.1086/504637, Bibcode2006AJ....132..161G. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Samus, N. N. et al. (2017), "General Catalogue of Variable Stars", Astronomy Reports, 5.1 61 (1): 80–88, doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085, Bibcode2017ARep...61...80S. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Soubiran, C. et al. (April 2013), "The catalogue of radial velocity standard stars for Gaia. I. Pre-launch release", Astronomy & Astrophysics 552: 11, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220927, A64, Bibcode2013A&A...552A..64S 
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 McCarthy, Kyle; Wilhelm, Ronald J. (October 2014), "Characterizing the AB Doradus Moving Group via High-resolution Spectroscopy and Kinematic Traceback", The Astronomical Journal 148 (4): 13, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/148/4/70, 70, Bibcode2014AJ....148...70M. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 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.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Gáspár, András et al. (2016), "The Correlation between Metallicity and Debris Disk Mass", The Astrophysical Journal 826 (2): 171, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/171, Bibcode2016ApJ...826..171G. 
  10. Vican, Laura (June 2012), "Age Determination for 346 Nearby Stars in the Herschel DEBRIS Survey", The Astronomical Journal 143 (6): 135, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/135, Bibcode2012AJ....143..135V. 
  11. "HD 111395". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+111395. 
  12. Fuhrmann, K. et al. (2017), "Multiplicity among Solar-type Stars", The Astrophysical Journal 836 (1): 139, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/139, Bibcode2017ApJ...836..139F. 
  13. Nakajima, Tadashi; Morino, Jun-Ichi (January 2012), "Potential Members of Stellar Kinematic Groups within 30 pc of the Sun", The Astronomical Journal 143 (1): 2, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/1/2, Bibcode2012AJ....143....2N. 
  14. Messina, S. et al. (November 2003), "Dependence of coronal X-ray emission on spot-induced brightness variations in cool main sequence stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics 410 (2): 671–684, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20031203, Bibcode2003A&A...410..671M. 
  15. Greiner, J.; Richter, G. A. (March 2015), "Optical counterparts of ROSAT X-ray sources in two selected fields at low vs. high Galactic latitudes", Astronomy & Astrophysics 575: 67, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322844, A42, Bibcode2015A&A...575A..42G.