Astronomy:HD 121474

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Short description: Single star in the constellation Centaurus
HD 121474
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Centaurus
Right ascension  13h 57m 38.88181s[1]
Declination −63° 41′ 12.1069″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 4.701[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K1.5IIIb:[3]
B−V color index +1.101[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+21.90±0.17[1] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −39.880[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −33.867[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)15.3516 ± 0.1607[1] mas
Distance212 ± 2 ly
(65.1 ± 0.7 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.67[4]
Details
Radius12.76+0.18
−0.21
[1] R
Luminosity70.3±0.9[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)2.75[2] cgs
Temperature4,679+40
−32
[1] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.01[2] dex
Other designations
CPD−63°3070, FK5 514, HD 121474, HIP 68191, HR 5241, SAO 252531[5]
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 121474 is a single[6] star in the southern constellation of Centaurus, near the southern constellation border with Circinus. It is an orange-hued star and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.70.[2] This object is located at a distance of approximately 212 light years based on parallax, and it has an absolute magnitude of 0.67.[4] It is drifting further away from the Sun with a radial velocity of +22 km/s.[1]

This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K1.5IIIb:,[3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded off the main sequence. At present it has 13[1] times the girth of the Sun, with a near-solar metallicity of −0.01.[2] The star is radiating 70 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,679 K.[1]

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 Jones, K. L. et al. (June 1992), "Spectroscopic investigation of cool giants and the authenticity of their reported microwave emission", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 256 (3): 535–544, doi:10.1093/mnras/256.3.535, Bibcode1992MNRAS.256..535J. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989), "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 71: 245, doi:10.1086/191373, Bibcode1989ApJS...71..245K. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  5. "HD 121474". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+121474. 
  6. 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, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E