Astronomy:HD 122430

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Short description: Star in the constellation Hydra
HD 122430
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Hydra
Right ascension  14h 02m 22.78173s[1]
Declination −27° 25′ 47.1992″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.47[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2–3III[3]
B−V color index 1.331±0.003[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−0.61±0.24[1] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −31.861±0.259[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −4.195±0.215[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)7.3651 ± 0.1407[1] mas
Distance443 ± 8 ly
(136 ± 3 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.17[2]
Details[4]
Mass1.62±0.19 M
Radius21.20±2.06 R
Luminosity189.6±4.2[1] L
Surface gravity (log g)1.96±0.07 cgs
Temperature4,383±19 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.08±0.04 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)2.59±0.45 km/s
Age1.98±0.67 Gyr
Other designations
CD−26° 10060, GC 18954, HD 122430, HIP 68581, HR 5265, SAO 182182[5]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia
data

HD 122430 is single star[6] in the equatorial constellation of Hydra. It has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.47.[2] The star is located at a distance of 105.6 light years from the Sun based on parallax.

This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2–3III.[3] It has completely run out of the hydrogen fuel that keeps it stable, although it is only two billion years old,[4] younger than the Sun's 4.6 billion years. HD 122430 has a mass of 1.6 times and radius of 22.9 times that of the Sun.[4] Despite its younger age, it has slightly lower metallicity, approximately 90%. It is radiating 190[1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4300 K.[4]

A candidate exoplanet was reported orbiting the star via the radial velocity method at a conference in 2003, and designated HD 122430 b. It has an orbital period of 0.94 years and an eccentricity of 0.68.[7] However, a follow-up study by Soto et al. (2015) failed to detect a signal, so it remains unconfirmed.[8]

The HD 122430 planetary system[7]
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b (unconfirmed) >3.71 MJ 1.02 344.95±1.08 0.68±0.09

See also

References

  1. 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. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331. doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015. Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Houk, Nancy (1979). Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars. 3. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan. Bibcode1982mcts.book.....H. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Jofré, E. et al. (2015). "Stellar parameters and chemical abundances of 223 evolved stars with and without planets". Astronomy & Astrophysics 574: A50. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424474. Bibcode2015A&A...574A..50J. 
  5. "HD 117207". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+117207. 
  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. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Setiawan, J. (October 2003). "Planets around evolved stars". Proceedings of the Conference on Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, 22–25 April 2003, Heidelberg, Germany. 539. Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division. pp. 595–598. ISBN 92-9092-849-2. Bibcode2003ESASP.539..595S. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003ESASP.539..595S. 
  8. Soto, M. G. et al. (August 2015). "RAFT - I. Discovery of new planetary candidates and updated orbits from archival FEROS spectra". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451 (3): 3131–3144. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1144. Bibcode2015MNRAS.451.3131S. 

Coordinates: Sky map 14h 02m 22.7815s, −27° 25′ 47.183″