Astronomy:HD 216770

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Short description: Star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus
HD 216770
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Piscis Austrinus
Right ascension  22h 55m 53.708s[1]
Declination –26° 39′ 31.54″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 8.11[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K0V[2] or G9VCN+1[3]
B−V color index 0.821[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)31.141±0.0004[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: 226.237[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −177.985[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)27.2923 ± 0.0245[1] mas
Distance119.5 ± 0.1 ly
(36.64 ± 0.03 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)5.22[2]
Details
Mass0.74±0.07[5] M
Radius0.93±0.02[5] R
Luminosity0.79[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.37±0.04[5] cgs
Temperature5,399±18[5] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.27[5] dex
Rotation35.6 d[2]
Rotational velocity (v sin i)1.4[2] km/s
Age3.1[2] Gyr
Other designations
CD−27°16109, GC 31973, HIP 113238, SAO 191502, LTT 9276, NLTT 55283[6]
Database references
SIMBADdata

HD 216770 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.11,[2] it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye. It is located at a distance of 120 light years from the Sun, as determined by parallax measurements, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 31.1 km/s.[4] The star shows a high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at an angular rate of 0.302 arcsec yr−1.[7]

The spectrum of HD 216770 presents as a late G-type main-sequence star, a yellow dwarf, with a stellar classification of G9VCN+1,[3] where the suffix notation indicates anomalously strong band of CN. The star is smaller than the Sun, with 74% of the Sun's mass and 93% of the Sun's radius.[5] It is about three billion years old and is spinning slowly with a rotation period of 35.6 days.[2] The abundance of iron, a measure of the metallicity of the star, is higher than solar. The star is radiating 79% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,399 K.[5]

In 2003 an exoplanet was announced orbiting it by the Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search team.[2] As the inclination of the orbital plane is unknown, only a lower bound on the mass of the object can be determined. It has at least 65% of the mass of Jupiter. The body has an eccentric orbit with a period of 118.5 days.

The HD 216770 planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b >0.65 MJ 0.46 118.45 ± 0.55 0.37 ± 0.06

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Mayor, M. et al. (2004). "The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets XII. Orbital solutions for 16 extra-solar planets discovered with CORALIE". Astronomy and Astrophysics 415 (1): 391–402. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20034250. Bibcode2004A&A...415..391M. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gray, R. O. et al. (July 2006). "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: spectroscopy of stars earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample". The Astronomical Journal 132 (1): 161–170. doi:10.1086/504637. Bibcode2006AJ....132..161G. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Soubiran, C. et al. (2018). "Gaia Data Release 2. The catalogue of radial velocity standard stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics 616: A7. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201832795. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...7S. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Stassun, Keivan G. et al. (2017). "Accurate Empirical Radii and Masses of Planets and Their Host Stars with Gaia Parallaxes". The Astronomical Journal 153 (3): 136. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa5df3. Bibcode2017AJ....153..136S. 
  6. "HD 216770". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+216770. 
  7. Luyten, W. J. (June 1995). "NLTT Catalogue (Luyten, 1979)". VizieR Online Data Catalog. Bibcode1995yCat.1098....0L. 

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Coordinates: Sky map 22h 55m 53.7097s, −26° 39′ 31.547″