Astronomy:HD 66141

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Short description: Star in the constellation Canis Minor
HD 66141
Canis Minor constellation map.svg
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Location of HD 66141 (circled)
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Canis Minor
Right ascension  08h 02m 15.93659s[1]
Declination +02° 20′ 04.4522″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +4.39[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K2IIIbFe-0.5:[3]
B−V color index 1.252±0.008[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+71.57±0.01[2] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −28.63[1] mas/yr
Dec.: 105.27[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)12.84 ± 0.25[1] mas
Distance254 ± 5 ly
(78 ± 2 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)−0.07[2]
Details[4]
Mass0.98±0.06 M
Radius21.43±1.18 R
Luminosity166+43
−34
 L
Surface gravity (log g)2.09±0.06 cgs
Temperature4,328±21 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.52±0.05 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)1.91±0.45 km/s
Age9.18±2.09 Gyr
Other designations
G Canis Minoris, G CMi, 13 Puppis (obsolete), NSV 17713, BD+02°1854, FK5 2623, GC 10891, HD 66141, HIP 39311, HR 3145, SAO 116260, CCDM 08022+0221, WDS J08023+0220A[5][6]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia
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HD 66141 is a single[7] star in the equatorial constellation of Canis Minor. It has the Bayer designation G Canis Minoris,[5] the Gould designation 50 G. Canis Minoris,[6] and has the HR 3145 identifier from the Bright Star Catalogue.[5] When first catalogued it was in the Puppis constellation and was designated "13 Puppis", but it subsequently migrated to Canis Minor.[8] Bode gave it the Bayer designation of Lambda Canis Minoris.[9]

Properties

This star has an orange hue and is bright enough to be faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night, having an apparent visual magnitude of +4.39.[2] It is located at a distance of approximately 254 light years from the Sun based on parallax,[1] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +71.6 km/s.[2] The star is considered a member of the thin disk population.[4] It has one known exoplanet companion.[10]

The stellar classification of HD 66141 is K2IIIbFe-0.5:,[3] which indicates an evolved K-type giant star with a mild underabundance of iron. It is an estimated nine billion years old with 0.98 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 21 times the Sun's radius.[4] Over 2003 to 2012 a starspot was periodically dimming its light.[10] The star is radiating 166 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,328 K.[4]

A magnitude 10.32 visual companion was reported by J. Glaisher in 1842. As of 2015, it was located at an angular separation of 224.90 arcseconds along a position angle of 315°.[11]

Planetary system

From December 2003 to January 2012, the team B.-C. Lee, I. Han, and M.-G. Park observed HD 66141 with "the fiber-fed Bohyunsan Observatory Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO)".[10]

In 2012, a long-period, wide-orbiting exoplanet was deduced by radial velocity. This was published in November.

The HD 66141 planetary system[10]
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b >6 ± 0.3 MJ 1.2 ± 0.1 480.5 ± 0.5 0.07 ± 0.03

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Van Leeuwen, F. (2007). "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction". Astronomy and Astrophysics 474 (2): 653–664. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078357. Bibcode2007A&A...474..653V. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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 Keenan, Philip C.; McNeil, Raymond C. (1989). "The Perkins catalog of revised MK types for the cooler stars". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 71: 245. doi:10.1086/191373. Bibcode1989ApJS...71..245K. 
  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. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "G CMi". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=G+CMi. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1879). "Uranometria Argentina catalog of bright southern stars". Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba (Buenos Aires) 1. Bibcode1879RNAO....1.....G. http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=V%2F135%2Fcatalog. Retrieved 2021-01-27. 
  7. 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. 
  8. Griffin, R. F. (1999). "Spectroscopic binary orbits from photoelectric radial velocities. Paper 148: HR 7955". The Observatory 119: 272–283. Bibcode1999Obs...119..272G. 
  9. Wagman, Morton (2003). Lost Stars: Lost, Missing and Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry Others. Blacksburg, VA: The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company. 460. ISBN 978-0-939923-78-6. Bibcode2003lslm.book.....W. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Lee, B.-C. et al. (2012). "Detection of an exoplanet around the evolved K giant HD 66141". Astronomy & Astrophysics 548: A118. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118014. Bibcode2012A&A...548A.118L. 
  11. 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. 

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