Astronomy:HD 44120

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Short description: Binary star system in the constellation Pictor
HD 44120
Observation data
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Constellation Pictor[1]
A
Right ascension  06h 16m 18.786s[2]
Declination −59° 12′ 48.61″[2]
Apparent magnitude (V) 6.44[1]
B
Right ascension  06h 16m 14.257s[3]
Declination −59° 12′ 27.41″[3]
Apparent magnitude (V) 14.03[4]
Characteristics
A
Evolutionary stage subgiant[2]
Spectral type F9.5V[5]
B−V color index 0.593±0.015[1]
B
Evolutionary stage white dwarf[6]
Spectral type DB3.2[4]
Astrometry
A
Radial velocity (Rv)−2.125±0.0003[7] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −45.187[2] mas/yr
Dec.: −316.389[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)27.7563 ± 0.0172[2] mas
Distance117.51 ± 0.07 ly
(36.03 ± 0.02 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)3.57[1]
B
Radial velocity (Rv)40[8] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −48.359 mas/yr
Dec.: −312.181 mas/yr
Parallax (π)27.7297 ± 0.0203[3] mas
Distance117.62 ± 0.09 ly
(36.06 ± 0.03 pc)
Details
A
Mass1.214±0.040[9] M
Radius1.56[10] R
Luminosity2.93[10] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.10±0.03[11] cgs
Temperature6,005±70[11] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.09±0.06[11] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)3.39[12] km/s
Age4.105±0.755[9] Gyr
C
Mass0.67±0.10[13] M
Radius0.0130±0.0003[13] R
Surface gravity (log g)8.04±0.06[13] cgs
Temperature15,746±238[13] K
Other designations
GJ 9209, WDS J06163-5913[14]
A: CD−59°1275, HD 44120, HIP 29788, HR 2274, SAO 234418
C: L 182-61, WD 0615-591[4]
Database references
SIMBADA
C

HD 44120 is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Pictor. Although visible to the naked eye, it is a challenge to view having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.44.[1] The system is located at a distance of 118 light years from the Sun based on parallax, but it is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.[7] It has an absolute magnitude of 3.57.[1]

The primary member, designated component A of this system, is an F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F9.5V.[5] It is a Sun-like star and has been considered a "hot" solar analog with a shallower convection zone than the Sun.[15] The estimated age of this star is about four billion years,[9] and it is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 3.4 km/s.[12] It is chromospherically inactive.[16] The star has 1.2 times the mass of the Sun[9] and 1.6 times the Sun's radius.[10] It is radiating nearly three times the luminosity of the Sun[10] from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,005 K.[11]

The faint secondary companion, component C, is a magnitude 14.03 white dwarf star with a class of DB3.2,[4] indicating a helium-rich atmosphere. The object has an effective temperature of ~15,700 K with 67% of the Sun's mass but only 1.3% of the Sun's radius.[13] It has taken 155±16 Myr for the white dwarf to have cooled to the current temperature. Prior to leaving the main sequence, this star is estimated to have had 1.45+0.20
−0.16
 M
and thus was the system primary.[6] It has an angular separation of 40.98 along a position angle of 301.6° from the current primary. The projected separation of this co-moving pair is 1,533.9 astronomical unit|AU. Their estimated orbit has a semimajor axis of 1,702.6 AU and an orbital period of 51,100 years.[4]

A magnitude 7.61 visual companion, HD 44105, or component B, lies at an angular separation of 32.50 along a position angle of 234° from component A, as of 2015. It was discovered as a double star by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop and announced in 1829.[17] The parallax for this star indicates a distance of approximately 214 ly (66 pc) from the Sun.[18]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation". Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331. doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015. Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A  XHIP record for this object at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 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.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Holberg, J. B. et al. (2013), "Where are all the Sirius-like binary systems?", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 435 (3): 2077, doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1433, Bibcode2013MNRAS.435.2077H 
  5. 5.0 5.1 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 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Zhao, J. K. et al. (February 2012), "The Initial-Final Mass Relation among White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries", The Astrophysical Journal 746 (2): 11, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/144, 144, Bibcode2012ApJ...746..144Z 
  7. 7.0 7.1 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 
  8. Wegner, G. (1974). "A spectroscopic survey of southern hemisphere white dwarfs - IV. Radial velocities and space motions". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 166 (2): 271. doi:10.1093/mnras/166.2.271. Bibcode1974MNRAS.166..271W. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Delgado Mena, E. et al. (April 2019), "Abundance to age ratios in the HARPS-GTO sample with Gaia DR2. Chemical clocks for a range of [Fe/H]", Astronomy & Astrophysics 624: 24, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834783, A78, Bibcode2019A&A...624A..78D 
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Stassun, Keivan G. et al. (2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal 158 (4): 138. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. Bibcode2019AJ....158..138S. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Aguilera-Gómez, Claudia et al. (June 2018), "Lithium abundance patterns of late-F stars: an in-depth analysis of the lithium desert", Astronomy & Astrophysics 614: 15, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201732209, A55, Bibcode2018A&A...614A..55A 
  12. 12.0 12.1 Delgado Mena, E. et al. (April 2015), "Li abundances in F stars: planets, rotation, and Galactic evolution", Astronomy & Astrophysics 576: 24, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425433, A69, Bibcode2015A&A...576A..69D 
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Bédard, A. et al. (2017), "Measurements of Physical Parameters of White Dwarfs: A Test of the Mass-Radius Relation", The Astrophysical Journal 848 (1): 11, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa8bb6, Bibcode2017ApJ...848...11B 
  14. "HD 44120". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+44120. 
  15. González Hernández, J. I. et al. (April 2012), Richards, M. T.; Hubeny, I., eds., "Searching for the Signatures of Terrestrial Planets in Hot Analogs", From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium 282: pp. 480–481, doi:10.1017/S1743921311028183, Bibcode2012IAUS..282..480G 
  16. Mason, Brian D. et al. (December 1998), "A Multiplicity Survey of Chromospherically Active and Inactive Stars", The Astronomical Journal 116 (6): 2975–2983, doi:10.1086/300654, Bibcode1998AJ....116.2975M 
  17. Mason, B. D. et al. (2014), "The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog", The Astronomical Journal 122 (6): 3466–3471, doi:10.1086/323920, Bibcode2001AJ....122.3466M 
  18. 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.

Coordinates: Sky map 06h 16m 19s, −59° 12′ 49″